Tutorial for Installing Ubuntu Subsystem on Win10

1. Enable “Windows Subsystem for Linux”

Search for and open “Turn Windows features on or off” via the Cortana search box on the Win10 taskbar. Scroll down the list to find the “Windows Subsystem for Linux” item.

Check it, click OK, then restart the system as prompted.

2. Enable Developer Mode

Then go to the “Settings - Update & Security - For developers” settings page and select “Developer mode”. As shown:

Then it will download and install the Developer Mode package; wait for the installation to complete.

3. Enable the Linux Subsystem

Right-click the Win10 Start button and select “Windows PowerShell (Admin)” to run Windows PowerShell as administrator.

Enter and run the following command by pressing Enter:

> Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

You may need to restart the system.

At this point you can already enter bash, but there is no distribution available. Running bash will show the following prompt:

4. Install a Linux Distribution from the Windows Store

Open the Windows Store, then search for the name of any Linux distribution, for example I typed Ubuntu.

Click Get the app. You can see there are 3 distributions to choose from.

Here we’ll still choose Ubuntu, which I’m more familiar with.

Click Get to start downloading.

Installation complete

Click Launch and continue with the next installation steps. Just enter a username and password.

Installation complete. You can now have fun with it.

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