Get Windows Update Assistant.įor this setup I went with WSL 2. Please update to the latest Windows version if your build is lower than 18361. (Or enter the ver command in Windows Command Prompt). – Check your Windows version by selecting the Windows logo key + R, type winver, select OK. – Running Windows 10, updated to version 1903 or higher, Build 18362 or higher. To update to WSL 2, you must meet the following criteria: Hopefully, MS will have rolled it out and we can ignore this blurb. So I will copy and paste the criteria for info. WSL should be stock standard in 2020, but at the time of writing, I still could not upgrade to the 2020 version of Windows 10 on my new Surface laptop 3. They claim WSL 2 has “increase file system performance and support full system call compatibility.” Refer to the docs for a comparison of WSL 2 and WSL 1. I will be closely following Microsoft’s Guide and for screenshots and in-depth explanations refer to Chris’s article. Be sure to check the docs for the latest commands. Some things may be dated as I performed the setup some months ago.

I found the dual setup cumbersome, so I moved over to a Mac for my third setup. So I set up a newer Surface Laptop 3 on WSL 1 (WSL 2 not available on the newer Surface machines!) with Debian and pip python management. This was my first setup and while I was running some deep neural network models, my Surface Pro 3 was grinding to a halt.

This article will be 1 of 3 setup articles I plan to write. So I have to give credit to Chris for his post and please check it out as he goes into much more depth than what I will cover. I was running Python on my Win10, but when Chris Moffitt over at Practical Business Python (excellent site!) wrote about Using WSL to Build a Python Development Environment on Windows – Practical Business Python, I had to give it a crack. This article will cover in a nutshell my journey back into Linux for Python development. In Engineering tagged linux / python / windows / wsl

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