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Overview

You can enter the bash shell on windows from the command prompt by typing: 


> bash

Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  System information as of Thu Jul 29 10:36:56 EDT 2021

  System load:  0.0                Processes:             8
  Usage of /:   0.5% of 250.98GB   Users logged in:       0
  Memory usage: 0%                 IPv4 address for eth0: 172.18.84.238
  Swap usage:   0%

1 update can be installed immediately.
0 of these updates are security updates.
To see these additional updates run: apt list --upgradable


The list of available updates is more than a week old.
To check for new updates run: sudo apt update


This message is shown once a day. To disable it please create the
/home/john/.hushlogin file.
john@N-CND1042RH7:/mnt/c/Users/mehan/projects$

From here you are now running ubuntu linux.

Common Tasks 

Mount your windows home folder

$ cd ~
$ ln -s /mnt/c/Users/mehan home


Ubuntu Specific Tasks 

Update your packages

sudo apt-get update 


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