Configure

The first time you open Ubuntu, you will see this:

Console: WSL

Installing, this may take a few minutes...

Please create a default UNIX user account.
The username does not need to match your Windows username.
For more information visit: https://aka.ms/wslusers

Enter new UNIX username:_

You need to input a username. It can be anything. I will put Bob.

Console: WSL

Enter new UNIX username: bob

New password:_

Now, you need a password. It can be anything too, but REMEMBER IT. You will need this to use sudo commands.

When everything is ready, you will see something like this:

Terminal window with Ubuntu in WSL

👏 Congratulations! You are now running Ubuntu in WSL.