WSL Setup

There seem to even newer notes of mine here and here. However I’ve stopped using WSL and now have dual-booted Fedora. I spent two years using WSL and came to the conclusion that it is not worth tackling WSL issues, even with GUI support. I still commend the efforts WSL and WSL GUI team did.

For Windows 11

• In Powershell:

sudo wsl --install

You can get sudo pkg from scoop.

Restart your computer.

• Open Windows Terminal, and wait for installation to complete.

A new tab would open. Type in credentials and then close and reopen Terminal.

Do:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

• Install make, xclip, ghq (using curl -sf https://gobinaries.com/x-motemen/ghq | sh, ignore sudo error), setup ssh using github docs

• Download dotfiles. cd into dotfiles folder and do stow kitty -t ~ for each folder where kitty refers to all folders (git, nvim, etc.) except .git

• Create /etc/wsl.conf and fill it with these contents:

[interop]
enabled=false
appendwindowspath=false

^ actually here, you can keep enabled=true. Make it enabled, and disable it if you get any issues

• Open bashrc and append:

PATH=$(/usr/bin/printenv PATH | /usr/bin/perl -ne 'print join(":", grep { !/\/mnt\/[a-z]/ } split(/:/));')

Close WSL tabs and in Powershell tab write wsl --shutdown. Open a new WSL tab.

• Install fish shell

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-3
sudo apt update
sudo apt install fish

Make it default using chsh (/usr/bin/fish)

• Open new WSL terminal

Install Sublime Merge Install fzf Install ripgrep Install fd (sudo apt install fd-find)

mkdir ~/.local/bin
ln -s (which fdfind) ~/.local/bin/fd

^ you need to use $ before (which fdfind if you are running this command on bash.

• Add minimize maximize buttons to windows

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":minimize,maximize,close"

• Run fisher update. Fisher might update pkgs files. Commit them (dotfiles folder). Check if ctrl+r works

• Install node with mklement0/n-install using automated (without confirmation prompt):

curl -L https://git.io/n-install | bash -s -- -y

This would append a line in config.fish. If this line is same as the originally insterted one in the file, then discard it. Otherwise replace it with the old one.

Open a new tab and check node version using node -v.

• Install build-essential

sudo apt-get install --reinstall build-essential

• Install pulse audio to hear audio and alsa-utils to use aplay to play audio

sudo apt install pulseaudio
sudo apt install alsa-utils

^ See https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/29#issuecomment-879909577

Neovim

• Download nvim appimage from github and put it under ~/execs. do chmod +x <filename> on it.
• Type v and enter to open neovim.
• run :PlugInstall
• Close neovim and open it again
• Treesitter might install stuff. Reopen vim once its done
• Type :Redir messages to see all current errors

Install go

sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go<latest-version>.tar.gz

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin # its already in your fish config

Remove go → sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go