WSL installation

Install WSL, using version 2

wsl --set-default version 2
wsl --install Ubuntu-22.04

Once WSL is installed and configured, we will start using commands within Ubuntu

Update ubuntu packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Homebrew package manage installation

Homebrew web

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

# Use the following command to add Homebrew to the path
(echo; echo 'eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"') >> /home/$USER/.bashrc
eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

# Install Homebrew's dependencies if you have sudo access
sudo apt-get install build-essential

# We recommend that you install GCC:
brew install gcc

Fish shell installation

Fish shell web

# Only choose one option
# To get the latest version use Homebrew

brew install fish

# To get the latest version within the ubuntu repositories

sudo apt install fish

Set fish as default shell

Check the fish path (In the examples below it was located at: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/fish)

which fish

Add fish to the know shells (Replace FISH_PATH with your fish path) Example path: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/fish

# After this command restart WSL terminal.

sudo sh -c 'echo FISH_PATH >> /etc/shells'

Set fish as the default shell

# After this command restart WSL terminal.
chsh -s FISH_PATH

If fish has been installed correctly when you reopen WSL you will see a message like this

Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish

Add brew binaries in fish path (use the fish path but remove the fish subfolder from the path in my case it would be this)

fish_add_path /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin

Fisher plugin manager (Fisher repository)

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jorgebucaran/fisher/main/functions/fisher.fish | source && fisher install jorgebucaran/fisher

You can create aliases to shorten commands, for example I like to shorten git commands

alias --save ALIAS_NAME="git checkout main"
alias --save myProject="cd ~/Documents/Projects/Project1"

# To use them just call them by their name
ALIAS_NAME #Execute "git checkout main"
myProject #Go to Project1 folder

Zellij installation

Zellij web

brew install zellij

If you want to always start with zellij open fish config file

nano ~/.config/fish/config.fish

We add the following line and the file would look like this

# line to add in config.fish
 eval "$(zellij setup --generate-auto-start fish)"

# config.fish

if status is-interactive
    # Commands to run in interactive sessions can go here
    eval "$(zellij setup --generate-auto-start fish)"
end

Save and restart WSL terminal and next time you start WSL it will start with Zellij and Fish

Nvim and LazyVim installation

brew install nvim

Install LazyVim (LazyVim installation)

Verify and fix plugin dependencies (To verify errors, use :LazyHealth) and install nodejs

brew install ripgrep
brew install luarocks
brew install fd
brew install fzf
brew install lazygit
brew install node@20 # @version

# verifies the right Node.js version is in the environment
node -v # should print `v20.17.0`

# verifies the right npm version is in the environment
npm -v # should print `10.8.2`

Continue with customization:

• Copy .config folder

if you have a vs-code-json-language-server warning run this command

sudo ln -s /home/julian/.nvm/versions/node/v20.17.0/bin/node /usr/bin/node