Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

2016-10-23

1 minute read

Technology , WSL

I spent some time updating my website over the weekend. Normally, I would jump on my Arch Linux machine, but I decided to give Bash on Ubuntu on Windows a try and see how far I could get.

To my surprise, everything went remarkably well.

With access to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and the Ubuntu package repositories (via apt-get), I had no issues downloading and configuring the software needed for this site.

This included:

Installing vim
Installing git
Generating SSH keys
Installing golang
Downloading and installing the latest Hugo release

I look forward to using this more in the coming weeks; first impressions - this is an excellent addition to Windows.