Since I wanted to use Jekyll for my github.io pages, and I wanted to be able to write and test my webpages on my Windows machine, I checked out the WSL manual installation steps.

Below are the steps I took to install Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Open powershell as administrator and run:

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart

which provides the following output:

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844

Image Version: 10.0.19042.1110

Enabling feature(s)
[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.

I then checked my windows version to check my build version.

winver

After confirming my Windows 10 version could run the programs needed, I enabled Virtual Machine Platform:

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart

which gave the following output:

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844

Image Version: 10.0.19042.1110

Enabling feature(s)
[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.

I then checked my system type with:

systeminfo | find "System Type"

Next step requires the download of the Linux kernel update package that could be found on https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi. This requires a restart to complete the previous steps and to run the installation.

After the restart and the installation, I had to set WSL 2 as my default version.

wsl --set-default-version 2

Then proceed to Microsoft store to choose a Linux Distribution to install.

Done!