Code in Windows, run in Linux!

Currently I'm using Ubuntu on Windows with Oh My ZSH Shell.

Here is are the steps on how I got it running like seen above.

Install Windows Subsystem Linux — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Install Ubuntu on Windows from Microsoft Store — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ubuntu/9nblggh4msv6

Install ZSH on Ubuntu Bash

• Run this Command on Ubuntu Bash
  sudo apt-get install zsh

• Open Bash Profile by Command
  vim ~/.bashrc

• Add this at the top of File to set ZSH as defualt:
  bash -c zsh

Install Oh My ZSH

• Run this command sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Change the ZSH Theme to agnoster

• Open Bash Profile
  vim ~/.bashrc

• Change ZSH_THEME to agnoster from robbyrussell
  # See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

Use Ubuntu Bash in VS Code

• Install the Remote Development Extension Pack

Open a Remote Folder or Workspace

1. Open a WSL terminal window (using the start menu item or by typing wsl from a command prompt / PowerShell).
2. Navigate to a folder you'd like to open in VS Code (including, but not limited to, Windows filesystem mounts like /mnt/c
3. Type code . in Bash. This should take a while, and is only needed once.
4. Once finished, you now see a WSL indicator in the bottom left corner, and you'll be able to use VS Code as you would normally! That's it! Any VS Code operations you perform in this window will be executed in the WSL environment.

Hope You enjoy this tips.

Comments

[Swastik Baranwal]

Most people like WIndows GUI

[Brian Bethencourt]

i use windows mixed reality for VR, which I don't think linux supports yet;;

[Nguyễn Đăng Hải]

Commercial software of course

[Dabiel González Ramos]

Maybe IE is it still needed 😉, testing purpose or some other reason 👌

[Hammed Oyedele]

Yeah, I have been using Linux for over 2 years now and I have not seen a single reason to use Windows at all.

[Dabiel González Ramos]

Not only 🙂, as a software engineer, perhaps you can find yourself in the situation where you work on some project (legacy or not) still bein forced to support IE.