Setup ArchLinux in WSL
Sources
Setup User
Set root password
passwd
Install sudo
pacman -Syu
pacman -S sudo nvim vi nano
groupadd sudo
visudo # Uncomment %sudo ...
Create the user
useradd -u 1000 -g 1000 -m -s /bin/bash woelke
usermod -aG sudo woelke
Set a password
passwd woelke
Set wsl default user and restart wsl in powershell via wsl --terminate archlinux
tee -a /etc/wsl.conf <<'EOF'
[user]
default=woelke
EOF
Add Essential Applications
Install and setup yay
sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
yay -Y --gendb
More essentials
yay -S reflector pacman-contrib
Hardware accelerated rendering, Does this work???
yay -S mesa vulkan-dzn
TODOs
arch linux wsl docs
- 2.2 Open URLs in the WSL hosts browser
- 2.3 Run graphical applications with WSLg