Machine Learning Dev Box on Windows 10: HOW TO

Windows 10 version 2004 and on contains something called WSL 2.0, which is an actual lightweight Virtual Machine (VM). Before we talk about what the heck WSL 2.0 is, however, it would be nice to understand a bit about what WSL 1.0 is. WSL 1.0 is Window's answer to something called Cygwin. Cygwin was popular on older versions of Windows for developers who needed or wanted Linux-related tools and a bash shell (a GUI could be added after jumping through a few hoops, though, but unless you had nice hardware the GUI would've been pretty slow -- my experience a bit buggy, too). The suits and ties at Microsoft haven't given the go ahead for WSL 2.0 to support the Linux GUI …OR… the devs are running behind but the good folks at Kali solved it.