1. Open Settings app and go to Update & Security -> For Developers and choose the “Developer Mode” radio button
   
2. Then go to the Control Panel -> Programs and click “Turn Windows feature on or off”. Enable “Windows Subsystem for Linux(Beta)”. When you click OK, you will be prompted to reboot. Click “Restart Now” to reboot your PC
   
3. Use the Start menu to launch the Microsoft Store application
   
4. Search for Ubuntu and select the first result, ‘Ubuntu’, published by Canonical Group Limited
   
5. Click on the Install button
   
6. Press windows key and search for Ubuntu
   
7. To know present working directory enter: pwd
   
8. To know all available drives mounted to Ubuntu terminal enter: enter: ls /mnt/
   
9. Type cd /mnt/d/ to enter D: Drive
   
10. clear the terminal: clear
    
11. To create a file using Linux Command enter: touch file_name.txt
    
12. Open file with nano editor: nano file_name.txt
    
13. Type and save by ctrl+s
    
14. Quit Nano edior by pressing ctrl+x
    

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