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HowTo

Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features On Or Off
- Enable “Windows Subsystem for Linux”
Restart
Microsoft store > search for “Debian” > Get (need to disconnect VPN or create an account)
Launch from the start menu
Stretch basics
Fix screen:

The directory /var/run/screen/ is the socket directory for screen.

Fortunately, screen reads a environment variable SCREENDIR to get an alternative socket directory.

So to work around it, you can create a directory, such as ~/.screen:

mkdir ~/.screen && chmod 700 ~/.screen

and export the SCREENDIR to point to that directory:

export SCREENDIR=$HOME/.screen

You can also put this line into your ~/.bashrc so that it will also take effect afterwards.

Samba

You can't automatically access Windows network drives, even if they are mapped to a letter (20.6.20).

`/etc/fstab`:

  \\alan\huge  /mnt/y  drvfs  user,uid=1000,gid=1000  0  0

This ought to automount when WSL is fired up, but something[TM] needs to start it if you want to run `rsync` from `cron`.