If you're using Solarized Dark then you will probably want to install the patched version of it that increases contrast between the background and the foreground text (especially for zsh-autosuggestions which we will install later). I chose to install the color scheme Ubuntu from Windows Terminal Themes in my screenshots. You can set the color sheme for your Linux distro's profile from within the Appearance settings or within settings.json under the profiles/list//colorSheme property. You can contribute new themes by opening a PR to their git repo or by contributing to iTerm2 Color Schemes which they derive/mirror most of their themes from. More themes are available at Windows Terminal Themes. You can modify existing schemes and add new schemes within the GUI or you can open up settings.json and add your open color schemes under the schemes property. There are a few bundled color schemes to choose from including the popular Solarized Dark. You can update or add new color schemes to Windows terminal in its settings. Once set up, you can open a shell into your chosen Linux distro from Windows terminal. Microsoft has documententation containing installation instructions and some basic setup tasks. Now that WSL 2 is installed, you will next want to install Windows Terminal. Follow the guide here for instructions on checking if your Linux distro is using WSL 1 or 2 and instructions on switching it over to WSL 2 if needed. If you had previously installed a Linux distro with WSL 1 then you will need to manually switch it over to WSL 2. Upgrading a Linux distro from WSL 1 to WSL 2 This makes developing software on Windows that is intended to run on Linux much more attractive and resolves a lot of headaches that I had with WSL 1.įull instructions for installing WSL 2 and choosing a Linux distro can be found here. More details on the differences can be found here.įor me, one of the biggest benefits is being able to run Docker containers from within WSL.

WSL 2 is an overhauled version of the original Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 1) that provides a real Linux kernel under the hood. The first thing that you will want to do is install WSL 2 and a Linux distro. This gist takes heavy inspiration from kevin-smets / iterm2-solarized.md gist for iTerm2. WSL 2 + Windows Terminal + Oh My Zsh + Powerlevel10k

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