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Windows Subsystem for Linux - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux Tips
Windows Subsystem for Linux
- I have a confession to make. For a long time, at the beginning of my computing experience, I was a Windows guy. I could administer a Windows NT domain with the best of them. Well, I was pretty good at it, for a high school sophomore. I made fun of my Mac friends, and later, my Linux friends for using an operating system that I thought was too much like a toy, or too hard for a normal human to use. But I learned to embrace other operating systems, and so did Windows. In 2016, Microsoft released the Windows Subsystem for Linux. To people who had followed Windows for a long time, this seemed like either an absolute heresy or a sudden outbreak of common sense. The Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL, lets you run Linux programs right on your Windows desktop, instead of in a virtual machine or through a terminal session. By itself, the Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for Linux executables to run against the Windows kernel. There's no Linux kernel in sight, though…
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Exploring Windows Subsystem for Linux2m 20s
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Windows Subsystem for Linux7m 20s
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Exploring virtualization5m 28s
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Exploring containers5m 19s
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Exploring Fedora3m 8s
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Ubuntu desktop 18.042m
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Changing the default shell3m 30s
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Exploring other shells2m 5s
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Blocking ads on your network with Pi-hole6m 35s
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Exploring CentOS2m 6s
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Exploring Zsh5m 41s
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Osquery4m 28s
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Exploring fish5m 21s
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Exploring csh and tcsh2m 34s
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Using diff to compare files3m 54s
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Using xargs3m 41s
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Configuring and managing logs4m 32s
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Job control3m 59s
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Using watch and time3m 5s
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Recording a terminal session3m 14s
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Exploring Debian1m 49s
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Exploring SUSE Linux7m 33s
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Exploring Arch Linux16m 44s
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Exploring Alpine Linux6m 18s
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Exploring Linux Mint5m 14s
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Exploring Amazon Linux5m 8s
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UNIX time and the 2038 problem6m 36s
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Visual file management with Midnight Commander5m 42s
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Terminal on the go5m 1s
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FUSE and SSHFS3m 54s
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Removing Linux4m 44s
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WSL distros on Windows 103m 13s
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Embedded Linux4m 25s
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Exploring Netboot2m 43s
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Exploring ZFS3m 53s
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Docker on Linux5m 24s
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