A Linux Dev Environment on Windows with WSL 2, Docker Desktop and More

An overview of all of the tools I use on Windows 10 / WSL 2 to have a productive dev environment. Hit the subscribe button to receive more videos like this! --- Timestamps: 0:00 What we'll cover in this video 1:45 Using the PowerToys app launcher 3:22 Using the new Microsoft Terminal 4:33 Installing and getting set up with WSL 2 using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 6:04 Quick demo of using Docker Desktop with WSL 2 9:45 Installing Docker Desktop and configuring it for WSL 2 11:28 Viewing an updated list of all of the tools I use 12:17 Managing virtual desktops with DexPot 14:24 Using Ditto to access and search previous clipboard entries 16:12 Using AutoHotkey (AHK) for key remapping, global hotkeys and more 18:25 Configuring programs to start up when Windows boots up 19:06 Using Sizer to quickly size and position windows 21:00 Using Chrome, Google Hangouts, Zoom and the Momentum browser extension 21:37 Using HexChat to chat on IRC 22:15 Listening to music with foobar2000 22:49 Using IrfanView for viewing, resizing and cropping images 23:28 Using GnuCash for personal finance tracking and accounting 23:59 TL;DR on the video tools that I use (OBS, Camtasia and DaVinci Resolve) 24:26 Running in Production is a podcast where we talk about deploying web apps 24:42 Installing all of the tools I use on the Linux side in WSL 2 25:14 Configuring the .wslconfig file to avoid WSL 2 soaking up all of your memory 26:09 You can replicate this set up by mostly copy / pasting these commands 26:27 Using ASDF to manage versions for a few different programming languages 27:05 Maybe using Ansible, the AWS CLI v2 and Terraform 27:36 Using FZF to open files plus fuzzy search text in Vim and on the command line 28:36 Clipboard sharing between WSL 2 and Windows with VcXsrv 30:19 Using htop to monitor your system's resource usage and get a list of processes 30:52 Using the pass CLI tool to manage passwords and other sensitive data 31:52 High level overview of how you could use my dotfiles 32:27 Ensuring you have a few WSL specific lines in your bash, zsh, or fish config 33:36 Final verdict? I'm really happy with this set up Tools reference links: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/terminal https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wind...    • Vim and tmux   (Vim / tmux playlist) https://www.docker.com/products/docke... https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/the-to... https://dexpot.de/?lang=en https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/ https://www.autohotkey.com/ https://www.gimp.org/ https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... https://hexchat.github.io/downloads.html https://foobar2000.org/ https://www.irfanview.com/ https://www.gnucash.org/ https://obsproject.com/ https://www.techsmith.com/video-edito... https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod... https://asdf-vm.com/#/ https://github.com/junegunn/fzf https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/managi... Courses and Podcast reference links: https://buildasaasappwithflask.com https://diveintodocker.com https://runninginproduction.com/ --- Follow along? Personal Website: https://nickjanetakis.com Twitter:   / nickjanetakis