Now, you need to set up WSL on your Windows box, and install Ubuntu in it (or whichever distro you need, there’s quite a few).

It lets you open up a Window which can be used as an independent display. Steps to get this runningįirst you need to install a software called MobaXterm on Windows. Yes, this is i3 (with no tweaks to my configuration), and a regular Emacs session running on Windows. Here’s something that demonstrates this completeness in a way little else can: For something so hackish-sounding, it works surprisingly well and is very nearly complete. It is a sort-of software installable on the latest Windows 10, which let’s you open up a bash shell in an environment which behaves the same as a Linux system, with all the syscalls, sys or proc mounts we are familiar with (some aren’t available). The primary credit for that goes to Windows Subsystem for Linux, and the fact that I can run a full fledged i3wm inside it. It’s been a few months with this setup, and I am surprised at how well it has worked out for someone who once swore by Linux, and never considered using any other distribution. I happened to buy the Surface Book 2 laptop last year, and somehow felt like giving Windows a try after all this while. So yes, this is the first post on this blog with the tag “windows”.

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