How to Run Linux on Windows 10

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Open up PowerShell as an administrator, and run this command:

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

Then reboot your machine.

Once you have rebooted your machine, go to the Microsoft Store and get and install "Ubuntu" (there are other Linux options too.)


Note: When I downloaded it on 2021.11.08, it was 466.2MB.

Once it has finished installing, go to the start button and click on Ubuntu: 


It will do a little more installing, and you need to enter a:
  • new UNIX username
  • new password


And that's it!

Appendix: Some of the output from that final screen

Please create a default UNIX user account. The username does not need to match your Windows username.
For more information visit: https://aka.ms/wslusers

...

To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo {command}". See "man sudo_root" for details.

Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

...

1 update can be applied immediately.
To see these additional updates run: apt list --upgradable

The list of available updates is more than a week old.
To check for new updates run: sudo apt update

This message is shown once a day. To disable it please create the
/home/demo/.hushlogin file.

demo@DESKTOP:~$

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