

Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta) option in the list here and click OK.

To enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux (Beta), open the Control Panel, click Programs and Features, and click Turn Windows Features On or Off in left side bar under Programs and Features. Step 2 - Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux To enable Developer Mode open the Settings app and head to Update & Security > For Developers. Enable Windows 10’s Ubuntu Bash Shellīefore we started, ensure that you’ve install the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

The result is that you can now run native Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. Microsoft built new infrastructure within Windows – the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – upon which we run a genuine Ubuntu user-mode image provided by Microsoft great partners over at Canonical, creators of Ubuntu Linux.
