Running Linux Program under Windows using WSL

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  • Open Powershell with Administrative priviledge
  • WSL come with ubuntu as default distro, but there is another distro you can choose type:
    wsl --list --online

NAME            FRIENDLY NAME
Ubuntu          Ubuntu
Debian          Debian GNU/Linux
kali-linux      Kali Linux Rolling
openSUSE-42     openSUSE Leap 42
SLES-12         SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v12
Ubuntu-16.04    Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Ubuntu-18.04    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Ubuntu-20.04    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • As You can see there is another Linux Distribution, for example if You choose kali-linux you can install by type:
    wsl --install -d kali-linux