Alpine Linux on Windows WSL

From the latest Alpine Linux mininal rootfs

This is what I am working on right now and it's great!
Minimal enough to be understood if you wish to do so, yet pragmatic.
You can do everything pretty much anything on a Windows 11 + WSL system.

Steps

1. Install Windows 11!
   Get the ISO, make a bootable USB and get it done.

Tip

Press shift+F10 and write OOBE\BYPASSNRO then continue with the installation without an internet connection to skip logging into a Microsoft account

2. Install Thorium(or whatever browser you use) and the Bitwarden, YouTube Unhook and CouponBirds extensions
3. Enabling the WSL feature and rebooting

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart
shutdown.exe /r /t 0

4. Installing the latest Alpine Linux minimal rootfs in WSL

New-Item -Type Directory $env:USERPROFILE\AlpineWSL
wsl.exe --import $env:USERPROFILE\AlpineWSL alpine-minirootfs-x86_64.tar

5. Adding a standard user and installing ZSH

apk add zsh
adduser -h /home/sans -s /bin/zsh sans -
su -l root

6. Installing doas and setting the su SUID bit

apk add doas
echo 'permit :wheel' > /etc/doas.d/doas.conf
adduser sans wheel
chmod u+s /bin/su

7. Running the installation script

su -l sans
doas sh dotfiles/windows/install.sh

8. Place the dotfiles in their corrisponding directories
9. Done! 🎉

Note

Setup mdev and hwdrivers for microcontrollers and more to work.
I use Helix for everything, but I do like to keep Codium(optimized and private VSCode fork) installed I also have my old setup on a window manager for xorg in ./xorg!

Tip

I have a really cool VSCode configuration with Vim keybindigs I don't use anymore, check it out if you do! Get the GitHub Theme, Vim and WSL extensions if you want to try it.