Installation

Visit the Microsoft Store and install Ubuntu.

Click get and then wait for the download to complete. You can view the status of the download by clicking the download icon in the top right corner.

Once it has downloaded, click the launch button from the initial ubuntu screen.

Enter a new username and password.

Launch the Ubuntu App to get a command prompt.

USER@HOST:~$ uname -a
Linux N-CND1042RH7 5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Wed Oct 28 23:40:43 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Common Tasks 

Mount your windows home folder

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

Disable visual and audio bell/beep in WSL on Windows 10

$ vi ~/inputrc

Add the following

set bell-style none

Turn off Command Prompt Sounds

Open up Sound Settings

Scroll down to Advances Sound options and click it.

Set Console Window Host volume to 0

Advanced Tasks

Adding Kubernetes Support

See https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-linux/

Install kubectl

# download
$ curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

#install
$ sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Adding VPN Support

Record your current nameserver

$ cat /etc/resolf.conf

# This file was automatically generated by WSL. To stop automatic generation of this file, add the following entry to /etc/wsl.conf:
# [network]
# generateResolvConf = false
nameserver 172.17.192.161

1. cd /etc 

2. echo "[network]" | sudo tee wsl.conf 

3. echo "generateResolvConf = false" | sudo tee -a wsl.conf

4.  wsl --terminate Ubuntu  #(Terminate WSL in Windows cmd, in case is Ubuntu not Debian).

5. cd ~/../../etc (go to etc folder in WSL).

6. sudo rm -Rf resolv.conf (Delete the resolv.conf file).

6.5 Connect to your vpn

7. In windows cmd, with the vpn connected do:

  > ipconfig /all to get the dns primary and secondary.

135.5.25.53
135.239.25.53

8. With the dns primary and secondary . Replace X.X.X.X in the folllowing steps with the primary and secondary DNS ips

9. echo "nameserver X.X.X.X" | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf (Create resolv.conf and append the line.)

10. echo "nameserver X.X.X.X" | sudo tee -a /etc/resolv.conf (Append the line in resolv.conf)

11. wsl --terminate Ubuntu (Terminate WSL in Windows cmd, in case is Ubuntu not Debian).

12. sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

13. And finally in windows powershell with Administrative rights:

Get-NetAdapter | Where-Object {$_.InterfaceDescription -Match "Cisco AnyConnect"} | Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceMetric 6000

References