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How to run a real Linux environment on Windows without a virtual machine

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Windows Subsystem for Linux allows you to run a real Linux environment on Windows without a virtual machine.

You can be working on your server code in BIM on one screen while working with Adobe Photoshop on the other screen.

As a full stack developer, you can link Linux to BS code, allowing you to use any Linux based utility and spawn actual Linux processes from your application code.

Z Shell gives us access to an awesome tool that will make us feel like a 10X developer called Oh my Zosh.

Ubuntu doesn't come with node installed by default, so if you run node from the command line you should get not found.

Now everything you do here, including the code you write, will happen on Linux .

Running this command will cache your username and password for one hour .

If you're using Git for version control, there's a good chance you're also using GitHub .

The Docker Desktop app is a great way to manage any containers running on your system.

Microsoft and Docker are collaborating to add full support in WSL 2 .

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