Recently I swith to Windows + wsl2, and it working pretty well for my python development, below my steps to setup “nearly perfect” windows + wsl2 setup.
Terminal
On my ubuntu (wsl2 ) I use zsh + oh-my-zsh
1- basics ubuntu packages git + zsh + some fonts
sudo apt install git zsh fonts-firacode
maybe fonts-powerline fonts-noto-color-emoji too if you want
2- install oh my-zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
Python
I use Pyenv to manage python versions, to install pyenv we need to install some dependencies
1- install dependencies
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev \
libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev \
xz-utils tk-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev python-openssl
pyenv
2- now install pyenv
curl https://pyenv.run | bash
2.5 - after install pyenv we need to add to your .bashrc
# WARNING: seems you still have not added 'pyenv' to the load path.
# Load pyenv automatically by adding
# the following to ~/.bashrc:
export PATH="/home/uelei/.pyenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"
3- now install some python to use (need to restart the terminal)
pyenv install 3.8.0
pyenv install 3.7.4
3.1- after set a default python
pyenv global 3.8.0
pipx
Some aplications I like to use system wide so I use pipx, to install use some python > 3.7 (as i define 3.8), its fine
python -m pip install pipx
pipx ensurepath
if you want to install some global package
pipx install youtube-dl
poetry
Now with pipx is easy to install poetry
pipx install poetry
its done !
Setup VcXrsv
Now I need to setup steps to work on windows and WSL2, to use GUI we need to install on windows VcXsrv to act line a X11 remote for your Wsl distro, I make a small script to add to your bashrc to automaticly export correct IP and forward to X to that IP,
1- Install VcXsrv
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
2- add follow script to bashrc , that script only will be executed if is called by wsl, so you can add to your bashrc fearless
if (( ${+WSL_DISTRO_NAME} )); then
echo "exporting display for wsl"
export DISPLAY=$(cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print $2; exit;}'):0.0
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
fi
extras
spaceship theme for zsh is beatyfull
git clone https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt.git "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship-prompt"
ln -s "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship-prompt/spaceship.zsh-theme" "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship.zsh-theme"
you need to change theme on .zshrc too !
Set ZSH_THEME="spaceship" in your .zshrc.
gcloud
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-debian-ubuntu
Add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
Import the Google Cloud Platform public key
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -
Update the package list and install the Cloud SDK
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk
gcloud init
kubectl
https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
kubectl version --client
helm
https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/
Always install the most update one !
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash
Terraform
1- Download the most update one and unpack it https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
2- move to your $PATH
mv ~/Downloads/terraform /usr/local/bin/