How to use GitHub Copilot with WSL on Windows
Summary
Build software on Windows using the Linux environments and tools you already rely on. In this video, see how to connect the GitHub Copilot app to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and run coding agent
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Transcript Excerpt
The GitHub Copilot app just added support for WSL. WSL is the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is essentially just a small Linux kernel that ships inside Windows. So, if you have a production environment that runs on Linux, and you want to match that in your dev environment, WSL's great for that. Or even if you're someone who prefers bash, you can use WSL. So, let's take a look at how this works inside the GitHub Copilot app. So, first I just want to show that I have a WSL project already running. So, in my terminal, I have two Ubuntu panes open. One is connected to my server, and one's connected to my client. And when I open localhost:5173, it opens my project, which is my ASCII art uploader. So, this just lets me pick an image file, and then I can convert it to ASCII. Pretty straightfo…
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