Background: crowned > need for speed, Fluent terminal with Bright Lights theme

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)

• Shutup 10 disable windows garbage
• git ofc
• chocolatey a package manager for windows
• Programming "languages"
  • nodejs
  • Go
  • Rust
• vsCode code editor
• Windows Terminal or Fluent Terminal my favorite a nice terminal
• Wox & Everything a quick launch tool & file indexer
• Deskpins Pin a window to the top
• Winaero Tweaker Tweak the windows experance

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

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

To view localhost only exposed servers create .wslconfig in the user root dir with the following contents:

[wsl2]
localhostForwarding=true

To quickly access the subsystem's filesystem add the following network drive under "This PC" \\wsl$\Ubuntu note: this does not work on wsl1

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
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

I use fish as my main shell on linux so i also install it on my subsystem

# install fish v3
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-3
sudo apt install fish

# set fish as main shell
chsh -s `which fish`

# install oh my fish
curl -L https://get.oh-my.fish | fish

# install nvm (node version manager)
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash
omf install nvm
nvm install 13
nvm use 13
nvm alias default 13

# Get a nice fish theme if you want:
omf install nai

I usually edit the .config/omf/init.fish to add a few handy shotcuts:

alias h='cd ~'
# ...

See my dotfiles

1. Download: https://github.com/dracula/wox
2. Place Dracula.xaml in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Wox\app-X.X.XXX\Themes, in wox type restart wox > settings > Theme > Dracula

Download the z-Bright-Lights.itermcolors theme underhere and import it into the fluent terminal
For more themes: https://iterm2colorschemes.com (dowanlod the zip and extract the schemes folder)

Add Fluent terminal to context menu: install.bat

1. download Steam customizer tool
2. download the dracula skin

Tweaked settings:

• Disable timeline context menu
• Take ownership context menu
• Screen snip context menu
• Screen snip shortcuts > place the shotcut in %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
• Disable cortana windows apps
• Ads and unwanted software behavior
• Compressed overlay icon file explorer
• Shortcut arrow shortcuts > No

The radeon software has a list of hotkeys that are also in use by some programs so i unbind them usually,
Settings arrow right top > Hotkeys > unbind the keys you find annoying for me that's almost everything :)

I do most things via the wox so i don't need the taskbar anymore, it's just a waste of space

• This setup eats noticable more memory than working on my linux machine, around 3-5gb more ram usage.
• Sometimes after login the localhost forwarding in wsl doesn't work and the only solution to fix it seems to be restarting my pc
• Restarting wsl (wsl --shutdown > open a terminal) breaks the docker access from within wsl, the docker command still work but starting a webserver and trying access it doesn't work. Usually i restart my pc if i still need to use docker after this, but i suspect you can also figgle around with the docker desktop settings to get it working again.
• Sometimes the subsystem or the fish shell seems to crach but kinda still works???, it's supper wired but in the end i always restart my pc to solve it (note: Always when this happends there is also an update that can be installed when rebooting).

• Windows start menu dir: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs