I recently got the chance to completely reset my Windows 10 machine, and took advantage of the
opportunity to create a dev environment I would love. These were my high-level goals:
Make WSL my primary dev environment
Use VSCode as my primary editor
Have a beautiful terminal
To achieve this, I started by installing WSL 2. I went with an Ubuntu distro because that's what
I've had the most experience with in the past. You can find instructions on installing WSL and/or
upgrading it to WSL 2 in the official
docs.
Next I installed VSCode, and the Remote Development extension
pack
which is where things start to get fun. With this extension pack installed, you can edit files in