Instructions for WSL

[zerothi]

A page dedicated to WSL would be nice. Let people know there is an easy introduction to linux.

[so-rose]

Some 2c:

Just as a bookmark, I remember the official guide being ok: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

Some experiences helping friends with it:

• One confusion I've seen / experienced is having to "Run as Administrator" (right-click) for wsl --install to work. The error messages about "permission" and "denied" are scary.
• The particulars of it working or not seem to vary in small ways between Windows versions. And, of course, Ubuntu versions.
• I mean, it's a VM. "Strange" is the name of the game. Ex. I was making an npm-built site portable, by relying on WSL and a folder shared with the Windows kernel, which caused certain POSIX operations to slow down up to 20-30x, and everything related to inotify simply... broke. One of those, "probably usually an issue - until it is".
• Anything GUI seems to be a shadow realm; potentially problematic for dtumathtools plots.

As I recall, certain C-oriented classes (Programming of Mathematical Software for MatTek, for example) have made guides for WSL (they need gcc) and spend a lecture on it. Courses like that may have some material ready already.

Hope it can help!

[zerothi]

Sure it can!! Great!