{"id":4237,"date":"2021-11-16T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2021-11-16T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T18:28:41","slug":"installing-wsl-windows-subsystem-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/installing-wsl-windows-subsystem-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing (WSL) Windows Subsystem for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux is a lot easier then it used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply run Powershell as administrator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-3-1024x960.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-3-1024x960.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-3-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-3-768x720.png 768w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-3-320x300.png 320w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-3.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Launch PowerShell as Administrator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">wsl --install<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-2.png 1025w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-2-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-2-768x294.png 768w, https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-2-500x192.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Installing Windows Subsystem for Linux<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reboot the computer after it finishes installing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/wsl\/install\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/wsl\/install<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux is a lot easier then it used to be. Simply run Powershell as administrator wsl &#8211;install Reboot the computer after it finishes installing. https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/wsl\/install<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[273,1031],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-windows","tag-wsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}