Installing Ubuntu Linux

Before installing, you need to make sure you have the latest version of WSL. You should have this version or higher, and Ubuntu-24.04.

wsl --version
# Should show WSL version 2.4.11.0
wsl --list
# Should include Ubuntu-24.04

Installing is simple using the command

wsl --install -d Ubuntu-20.04

If you wanted Debian Linux you can use -d Debian

Setting up users

    sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash -G sudo,docker <your username>

Modify the /etc/wsl.conf file to change the username from “default_developer” to . This example uses "nano" as the editor, but "vi", etc. will work too.

cat <<EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/wsl.conf
[boot]
systemd=true

[user]
default=<your username>
EOF
# If prompted, this would still be using the "default" sudo password.

After when you restart WSL, you’ll be logged in as that user.

Installing Docker

After Ubuntu is installed, you can install docker using

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o install-docker.sh
# Then
sudo sh install-docker.sh
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