Linux Mint is a popular Linux distro not offered through the Microsoft Store, so here's how to install it on WSL.

To install Bash, open Windows Terminal as an admin. You can do this by right-clicking the Windows icon and selecting “Windows Terminal (Admin)” from the power user menu.

No one wants to install a whole operating system, just to mess around with a bit of terminal-based garbage, so Microsoft did the right thing, and brought Linux inside Windows, using the Windows ...

Microsoft came up with an interesting solution: bring Linux to Windows. Microsoft worked with Canonical to bring Ubuntu on Windows, which I have written about in detail.

The newest Windows 10 Fast Ring release, 14316, includes Ubuntu and Bash. It may not have a Linux foundation, but this is close as a Windows PC has ever come to also being a Linux computer.

Manjaro is a popular Linux distro not offered through the Microsoft Store, so here's how to install it on WSL.

The Windows Terminal app provides an entry into multiple command line tools for Windows 10 and 11. Some key customizations make it even more useful.

Once done, open the Ubuntu bash shell in Windows by typing ‘bash’ in the Start menu of Windows and it will open a Linux terminal. Now it’s time to turn Ubuntu against itself.

You can access Windows Subsystem for Linux files using Explorer on Windows 11/10. Open Explorer from WSL Terminal or launch the root from Explorer.

In case you have mistakenly uninstalled Windows Terminal on your Windows 11 PC, you can get it back via PowerShell or the Microsoft Store.