In fact, it was a few tweets from Scott yesterday that prompted me to play around with WSL and. Check out Scott Hanselman's excellent post today (as I'm writing this) on some of the developer features of the WSL shell. To install the stable version we need to issue the following command: winget install Microsoft.The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), also known as Bash on Ubuntu for Windows makes it very easy to get your feet wet with Linux on Windows 10 without having to set up Virtual machines or installing any software to get Linux up and running. We are looking to install the stable version, but you can see that the Preview version is also available. This will as the Windows Package Manager to search for all the software in it's repository that have the word Terminal in their name or metadata. To do that we need to open up a PowerShell window and then issue the command: winget search Terminal Now that we have Windows Package Manager installed we want to look at installing Windows Terminal. Installing Windows Package Manager Install Windows Terminal appxbundle file and install that on your machine.īelow is a quick video of the process.

The first thing that you need to make sure you have on your system is Windows Package manager, it's straightforward to install on your Windows 10 machine.

If you haven't already got Windows Terminal installed on your machine, I'd highly recommend you do, and here's my guide to installing it via Windows Package Manager.

Windows Terminal went generally available in May 2020 and since then I've seen a lot of people utilise it as there go to console for day to day use.Īnd I'm one of those people, it's great being able to have a console that offers me the chance to work in PowerShell, Linux or Azure CLI from one window really.

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