README.md

Acessing your Windows Files from within WSL

You can access you Windows folders at /mnt/c/Users/$WIN_USER I have set the environment variable to always equal your actual Windows username

For convenience I made symbolic links in your Linux home directory to your Windows home dir and your Downloads folder Use the command 'ls' to see whats in your home directory

Python

I have initialized a virtualenv that automatically starts when you load your shell This is useful so that you can install pip packages psuedo-globally without interferring with the system Python install The virtualenv folder is located ~/.venv You can see it by using ls -a while in your home directory

Docker

Docker is installed and I've started a local portainer instance already This provides a nice GUI for managing docker containers Access it at https://localhost:9443 Depending on WSL2's default config options this URL might not be accessible from Windows, we can fix it tho

ubuntu-bootstrap.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

cd

if [ -d "$HOME/Downloads" ]; then
  rm -rf "$HOME/Downloads"
fi
echo "export WINUSER=$WINUSER" >> .bashrc
ln -s /mnt/c/Users/"$WIN_USER" "$HOME"/
ln -s /mnt/c/Users/"$WIN_USER" "$HOME"/Downloads

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y \
	libosmesa6 libglx-mesa0 mesa-drm-shim pciutils  \
	mesa-va-drivers intel-media-va-driver-non-free  \
	build-essential git git-extras cmake flex bison meson direnv \
	p7zip bzip2 zstd bat cht.sh dialog minicom \
	python3-virtualenv python3-pip python3-pip-whl python3-setuptools-whl  \
	python3-requests python3-samba python3-tk pipx pandoc \
	python3-pygments python3-pil python3-plotly imagemagick \
	bash-completion shellcheck fish fzf eza micro btop tealdeer \
	ripgrep plocate jq yq csvkit csvkit-doc csvtool \
	xorg xterm xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-input-libinput \
	xsel xclip xcb xcb-proto xdg-utils ssh-askpass xdg-desktop-portal \
	wayland-protocols waypipe weston wl-clipboard xwayland xwayland-run \
	r-base r-cran-plotly r-cran-rsconnect \
	shiny-server r-cran-shinythemes r-cran-shinyjs \
	curl wget httpie arp-scan arping nmap ssh samba smbclient  \
	docker.io docker-compose-v2 docker-doc docker-buildx \
	sqlite3 sqlite3-tools \
	openjdk-21-jdk openjdk-21-jre 
	
	 
	
python3 -m virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
echo "source ~/.venv/bin/activate" >> .bashrc
echo "export COLORTERM=truecolor" >> .bashrc
echo "export MICRO_TRUECOLOR=1" >> .bashrc
echo ".venv" >> .gitignore
echo ".motd_shown" >> .gitignore
echo ".bash_logout" >> .gitignore
echo ".landscape" >> .gitignore
echo ".sudo_as_admin_successful" >> .gitignore
echo "alias ls=eza" >> .bashrc
alias ls=eza
echo "Your Windows Download folder is now linked to your Ubuntu Download folder"
echo "You can find it at ~/Downloads"
echo "Your Windows Home folder is now linked to ~/$WIN_USER"
ls
echo ""
echo "Your shell will start inside a python virtual environment automatically, so you are safe to install common pip packages"
sudo docker volume create portainer_data
sudo docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:2.21.4
echo "Your personal portainer instance is running at https://localhost:9443 "
echo "ctrl+click to open if you are using Windows Terminal and not the old Windows console"
exec bash