Sometimes we have no choice of what operating system we have to run in our work environments. Many of us stick to our old ways using putty or cygwin to get by. I wanted something more so I went looking and this is what I have come up with. Multiple tabbed terminal sessions and all your native linux options at your fingers tips in windows with a little added rice. 😉
First you want to install WSL and a flavor of Ubuntu from the Windows store. Once we have our ubuntu environment ready, lets update it. Launch it and run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Then you will want to install neofetch in our Ubuntu environment. Follow the correct instructions for your version of Ubuntu installed.
Conemu seems to do something weird with the title display in neofetch so lets fix that first.
neofetch
vi ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf
Add the following above info title
info line_break
:wq!
Now we need to set our distro logo and set it to run on launch.
vi ~/.bash_aliases
alias neofetch2="neofetch \
--ascii_distro windows10 \
--line_wrap off \
--bold on \
--uptime_shorthand on
"
:wq!
vi ~/.bashrc
At the very bottom of the file add the following:
cd ~
neofetch2
:wq!
Now lets wrap this up by configuring cmder. Download and extract the latest version of cmder from here. Run cmder, once open right click on the top bar and select settings. Change your default startup task to {WSL:bash} and save your settings. The end result will look like the image at the top of this post.
-Mike