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Install WSL

• Open Powershell as Administrator type: wsl --install
• This command will enable the required optional components, download the latest Linux kernel, set WSL 2 as your default, and install a Linux distribution for you (Ubuntu by default)

Install other distros

• To see your options type: wsl --list --online
• Install one of them: wsl --install -d <DistroName>

Configure WSL

• Create your account
• Update repositorys and packages:sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

This checks the version

• (Run this in Powershell) wsl -l -v

Ubuntu GUI

• Type these to in to install required packages:
  sudo apt install -y xrdp sudo apt install -y xfce4 sudo apt install -y xfce4-goodies

Config

• This command backs up our config file: sudo cp /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini.bak
• Port configuration, note the right one is what we will be using: sudo sed -i 's/3389/3390/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini
• Controls screen scaling and color:
  sudo sed -i 's/max_bpp=32/#max_bpp=32\nmax_bpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini sudo sed -i 's/xserverbpp=24/#xserverbpp=24\nxserverbpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini echo xfce4-session > ~/.xsession

Edit

• Edit the xrdp file :
  sudo nano /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh

• Comment these lines below:
  #test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession
#exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession

• Add these lines:
  # xfce startxfce4

• Start RDP Service: sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start

Refrences:

• https://github.com/davidbombal/wsl2/blob/main/ubuntu_gui_youtube
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

Install Windows Terminal

• https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9N0DX20HK701