Easy WSL Windows path switching alias
I have been primarily developing on WSL for some years now, and still love the combination in terms of all around flexibility. When primarily working on Linux based or focused applications, everything is lovely! However, I’m spending more time straying into the land of hardware, USB devices, and custom IDEs and debug interfaces that are…
READ FIRST: Installing kubuntu-desktop on WSL2
This post is meant as a warning, DONT DO IT, without some research first. But if you end up here, you have likely already made the mistake ;) It in this case is, “this” is… Before you attempt this, do some reasearch, head the warning, and be casefull (maybe even backup your disk so you…
WSL2 COM port pass-through with usbipd (firewall issues)
I’ll start by saying that ultimately you want to read and follow the Connecting USB devices documentation for WSL. However, a few things cropped up along the way that I think might be worth writing down for future me, and others. Requirements Firstly, you need to be on WSL2. Next, install the USBIPD-WIN program. Listing…
Windows 11 OpenSSH agent to WSL2
I briefly touched on my OpenSSH agent to WSL2 solution back in 2021. Today find myself setting up a new Windows 11 laptop and running into a couple of different issues, and ultimately using a slightly different solution than before, so here is the short writeup glossing over the areas that lead me to get…
Installing Android Studio on WSL2 for Flutter
I’m trying to do some “modern” Android development and want to experiment with Flutter while running Windows, and WSL2 with Ubuntu. Flutter isn’t as easy to install as some programs, no simple apt-get etc, but instead a collection of binaries distributed by different organizations that all need to be tied together. To start with, you’ll…
VSCode & PHP XDebug from Localhost, WSL2 and Docker containers
VSCode seems to be one of the up and coming IDEs over the last year. I personally switched from Jetbrains IDEs to VSCode fo most of my development work at some point in 2020. Apparently up until now I have avoided running the PHP debugger Xdebug. I had to do a little search around to…