Windows

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is an important part of my daily work flow. Unfortunately, the main distro supplied by Windows is Ubuntu, which - for a variety of reasons - is not exactly my favorite distro. Luckily, WSL2 allows you to import an arbitrary Linux distro to use instead. I got the idea from an article (Dev.to) by Jonathan Bowman explaining how to get Fedora up and running in WSL2. This article summarizes the key points of Bowman’s post and includes information for my long time daily driver, Arch Linux. ...

One of the editors I use regularly is VS Code. I work a lot with Python, but when installing Anaconda using default settings on a Windows machine already having VSC installed there’s a good chance you’ll run into an issue. When attempting to run Python code straight from VSC you may get an error. This should be fixed on some newer versions of Anaconda, but I’ve needed to do something about it often enough I feel it’s useful to save the solution janh posted on StackExchange. ...