Windows setup

Development environment for Windows 11 is based on:

• winget to install applications (if available)
• WSL

Windows Features

Turn on the following Windows Features:

• Virtual Machine Platform
• Windows Hypervisor Platform
• WIndows Subsystem Linux

For the File Explorer, change the options to show hidden files and file-extensions.

WSL

Windows Subsystem Linux is installed with wsl --install, which installs directly Ubuntu. It requires re-start and after it setup the user-name and password. I use the same user-name as the Windows machine to simplify configuration.

After installation, perform the following to have it up-to-date:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install curl zip # tools without configuration

Then enter in the \\wsl$\ folder and map the network drive to the W: drive.

Winget

For winget, some hang might happen if you are not in the latest version. Ensure that the Microsoft store software is up-to-date.

On the terminal, run winget upgrade --all to update all out-of-date already installed applications.

TODO

It would be useful to prepare a winget config file to automatize further the installation of the apps instead of doing it manually.

The following packages would be installed with winget:

• Docker.DockerDesktop
• 7zip.7zip
• Mozilla.Firefox
• Google.Chrome

Tip

Other software should be also installed with winget but it is not listed here as it might require extra configuration.

Tools

• Terminal
• Git
• Java
• Python
• IntelliJ
• NodeJS
• VS Code

Utilities

• CLI-tools
• Utilities