Great stuff, once the Windows Terminal is installed, you’ll see the Launch button, click this to open the newly installed Windows Terminal, it should appear as follows: The Windows Terminal opens PowerShell by default… Once installed we will now go and install “Windows Terminal”, this is a new terminal developed by Microsoft that supports a whole host of goodness and makes this feel more like iTerm and other modern day terminal applications, using the Windows Store search box, search for “Windows Terminal” and install that too: Install Windows Terminal (Preview) from the Microsoft Store.
Once completed, Windows will require you to reboot your machine, at the prompt (shown above, type Y and press the return key (aka the “Enter” key), once logged back in we’ll open up the Microsoft Store and find “ Ubuntu 18.04” and then install it by clicking the blue Get button: Install “Ubuntu 18.04 LTS” from the Microsoft Store.
I’ve put this quick tutorial together to demonstrate how you can run Oh-My-ZSH and have a really awesome Linux terminal on Windows (knowing that others will be switching back to soon Windows too ))… Oh-My-ZSH running on Windows 10 – A modern Linux Terminal for Windows 10įirst of all, we need to enable WSL (Windows Sub-system for Linux), we can do this by opening PowerShell as Administator and then running the following command: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux More information on the move can be found in an earlier blog post. I’ve recently switched my Apple MacBook Pro over to a Dell XPS and am now using Windows as my daily driver. Oh-My-ZSH makes your terminal look and feel awesome – I used it daily on my MacOSX machines and also on Linux desktops in the past too!
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