Using Linux on Windows for Web Development
This Guide will help you set up
your windows computer as a development machine
using Linux.
After reading this guide, you will have the
following tools installed on your machine:
- The "Windows Subsystem for Linux" (WSL2) with Ubuntu
- Terminal
- git
- VS Code with the ability to use WSL
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1 Why use Linux on Windows?
In the last three decades web development tools
were mostly developed for UNIX systems: either for linux
or for mac os.
With "Windows Subsystem for Linux" you can use all these tools
and still keep using your gaming pc.
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2 Windows Subsystem for Linux
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3 Git
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=21600'