For some dumb reason windows always installes an old version so i use the insider program to get the latest windows version

1. Settings > Updates & Security > Windows Insider Program > do your things here
2. Settings > Updates & Security > Update Windows > Check for updates (This will take a shitload of time)

• git ofc
• chocolatey a package manager for windows
• nodejs for my nodejs development
• Go Lang for my go development
• vsCode code editor
• Windows Terminal or Fluent Terminal my favorite a nice terminal
• wox a quick launch tool

some programs work better with this tunred on so i turn this on usually
Control Panel > Programs > Turn Windows features on or off > hyper-v

Allow to visit localhost only exposed webservers from the subsystem in by creating .wslconfig in the user root dir with the following contents:

[wsl2]
localhostForwarding=true

As administrator run: (to allow the windows subsystem)

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName $("VirtualMachinePlatform", "Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux")
wsl --set-default-version 2

Install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

After installing you might have to convert the subsystem to windows subsystem version 2 using:

wsl -l -v
wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2

Download Docker desktop
After install:

1. go to Docker desktop settings
2. Under command line enable: Enable experimental features
3. Under general enable: Enable the experimental WSL 2 based engine (if the docker desktop craches install this kernel update)
4. Install docker in the ubuntu subsystem there is no need to start the docker service
5. In the docker desktop settings > Resources > WSL intergration > Enable ubuntu or whatever you have