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A few months ago Microsoft announced a new open source terminal they are working on:

As you can see in the Trailer of the video you can access an Ubuntu/Debian etc bash terminal from the Windows terminal.

My question is how do you access this? Do you have to enable the Linux sub-system for Windows and then download the distro form the Windows store? If so something I'd also like to ask is what are the downsides of enabling such a thing? Does it close down your boot time? Does it risk borking your computer etc?

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It will be the windows subsystem for linux WSL. I use it very often. You need windows 10 >= 1709 (winver). Acitvate the wsl windows feature, download a linux version from the store and run the bash command. I don't have any problems yet.

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Thank you, one question before I mark as correct, can you elaborate on "run the bash command"?
you are welcome. start the windows commandline and then type the command bash. it is only one way of many others, see devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/a-guide-to-invoking-wsl
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If you install versions of WSL they appear in your Start menu and you can click the icon to open a Bash console directly, without installing the New Windows Console, and also without opening a cmd.exe console window and typing "bash" or "wsl". If you install New Windows Terminal, you can open, from a menu, a console tab for Powershell and cmd.exe, as well as any WSL versions you have.

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Ubuntu 20.04 terminal exe is usually instled on:

C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe

As a regular Ubuntu terminal, that has their own "subsystem" but you can also access to other Windows path.

Has their own user and their own configuration on .bashrc

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