Installing Zsh and Oh-my-zsh on Windows 11 with WSL2

Before we begin, you might ask, why am I writing on something this trivial? I sold off my old MacBook Pro because I’m super excited about the new M1 Pro MacBook Pros. I have pre-ordered one of those and am waiting for it to come. Till then, I’m left with my gaming PC which is an Asus Zephyrus. So I thought I’ll make the best of it till I get my Mac. This will be series of posts in which I show to setup a Windows 11 PC to work with big data tools and technologies, mostly Hadoop. So let’s get into it.

Now that Windows 11 is officially available to the public, and given that Windows is the most popular operating system used by developers (according to stackoverflow, refer screenshot below), I thought it would be fun to install a new WSL system on my Windows 11 PC and try to set it up for big data tools. But before I could do that, I had to install Zsh and oh-my-zsh on it. I switched to using Zsh over half a decade ago and haven’t used Bash or any other shell ever. I just love how zsh look, the ability to theme it, and the community surrounding it. So, I started with zsh, and here is how you can install it too.

Installing WSL2 on Windows 11

The process of installing WSL on Windows 11 is not different than that on Windows 10. And if you are upgrading from a Windows 10 PC which already had…