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# Ubuntu Setup - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

1. Search on Windows: "Turn Windows Features on or off" and Enable "Windows Subsystem for Linux"

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2. Restart your Computer
3. Open Powershell and start installing WSL and Ubuntu Distribution of Choice

```
wsl --install
```

To use WSL2 instead of WSL1,

```
wsl --set-default-version 2
```

Since I am using Ubuntu 22.04, for WSL, run the following to set up Ubuntu 22.04 in WSL2,

```
wsl --install Ubuntu-22.04
```

To set Ubuntu 22.04 as the default distribution for WSL2,

```
wsl --set-default Ubuntu-22.04
```

For more info, look here

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