WSL/Installation
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How to install openSUSE WSL on MS Windows.
Prerequisites
- Verify that your version of Windows meets Microsoft's system requirements for WSL.
- Enable WSL on MS Windows.
Installation via MS App Store
After the prerequisites have been met:
- Click Start menu > Microsoft Store.
- Click Search, enter "SUSE", and click 🔎
- Click on the distribution you wish to install. The App page will open.
- In the App page, click the Install button.
- Follow the steps for WSL Initialization below.
WSL initialization
From the Microsoft Initialize WSL Distro page» :
- The first time a newly installed distro runs, a Console window will open, and you'll be asked to wait for a minute or two for the installation to complete.
- During this final stage of installation, the distro's files are de-compressed and stored on your PC, ready for use.
- This may take around a minute or more depending on the performance of your PC's storage devices.
- If Windows runs within a virtual machine (e.g. KVM), performance will be further impacted.
- This initial installation phase is only required when a distro is clean-installed; all future launches should take less than a second.
- Once initialization is complete, you'll be prompted to set up a new Linux user account.
- You will be prompted to create a new user account (and its password).
- This user account is for the normal non-admin user that you'll be logged-in as by default when launching WSL.
- You will have the option of making this user the root user (via
sudo).- You can choose any username and password you wish - they have no bearing on your Windows username.
- When you open a new distro instance, you won't be prompted for your password, but if you elevate a process using
sudo, you will need to enter your password, so make sure you choose a password you can easily remember!- See the Microsoft WSL User Support page» for more info.
See also
Related articles
- MS Windows System Requirements for WSL
- Enabling WSL on MS Windows
- Download openSUSE WSL from the MS App Store»