Summary of frequent WSL2 commands that I use. Since WSL2 came to life, I have been very excited to use it and have been using it extensively. After connecting WSL2 to your favourite IDE in our earlier post. I wanted to summarize the most common commands I use and my experience with these commands as a cheat sheet that might come handy if you are new to it. Note: All these commands are in powershell or cmd unless specified otherwise....
In our first post I introduced WSL2 and its benefit. In this post we will harvest and utilise the WSL2 power and functionality you need to be able to connect your favourite IDE (Interactive Development Editor) to utilse its packages inorder for you to develop, run, and debug your code. In this post I will walk you through setting up Pycharm and VSCode - two of the most commonly used IDEs these days that utlise WSL2....
Is there a world where we can get the benefits of Windows and Ubuntu/Linux? As an engineer or data scientist during your work flow you usually have to set up your machine with your IDE and tools, and also with programming languages and packages. Typically some of these require Linux, so you end up faced with a choice either dual boot or run a virtual machine. Each has its down sides....