In this video I want to show you two things that you can do to facilitate working with Linux if you're on Windows.
Thing number one is Ubuntu.
We installed WSL in lesson 1.6. Now how do you access it? Pretty simple.
Go to the search bar and type Ubuntu.
That will give access to your WSL instance.
Who am I is showing me who I am, LS is showing me current files and
LS a showing me all the files in there. And that is the WSL environment.
But I told you before that WSL is probably not the
best way to get familiar with the Linux operating system.
If you are on Windows and you want to connect remotely, you can use Mobile Xterm.
Let me show you mobaxterm. I have already installed
mobaxterm and this is what the interface looks like.
A common way to access Linux service remotely from Windows is Mobile Xterm.
Mobile Xterm allows you to define different sessions. As you can see, WSL Ubuntu is already available.
If you want to create a new session, you just open this session icon,
you click on SSH and you enter the IP address of the remote host.
Also it's recommended to specify a username.
If necessary, specify your port and then you click ok.
And that's going to establish the session to the remote computer.
As this is the first time I'm connecting to the remote computer, it doesn't know the
remote computer identity. So I need to click Accept to accept the SSH key material.
And then I have my login prompt and in my login prompt I'm
typing my password. And Mobile Extorm can catch this password. That is convenient.
So do with it whatever you want to do.
And if you don't want to catch it, that is fine as well.
I'm in my remote computer now and that is what matters. So that means
that from Windows interface I have full access to the Linux environment. This is
how I recommend you use Linux if you want to connect to it remotely.
Mobile Extrum for remote connections, Virtual machine for the most direct experience.
And if you really cannot or do not want to do anything else, WSL is possible as well.