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Microsoft Apps in Window Ubuntu on Windows allows you to use Ubuntu Terminal and run Ubuntu command line utilities including bash, ssh, git, apt and many more.   WSL on the Microsoft store = The Windows Subsystem for Linux Linux VMs Pre-built Linux Images through VMWare and VirtualBox (you will have to install one of these VMs first) [from Coursea Git&GitHub W1 forum] VMs https://www.virtualbox.org/ https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player.html Linux Platforms https://ubuntu.com/  Education, general Linux based on debian https://www.debian.org/ https://www.raspbian.org/ https://www.centos.org/

Best Resources: Git Book from GitHub   Book starts explaining version control, then install, then config and continues as git is used locally, to branches, to uploading to gitHub, and beyond to collabrating. Git Docs Getting git 0)    Check if  git already installed?  From cmd line: git --version   to see if installed  Installed? Skip to 2) 1)  (Ch.1.5) Install Git - by going to Git docs or online book and follow directions for your O/S. 2)  (Ch.1.6)  First-Time Git Setup using git config  set your name, email, and optionally editor and more. Basic git config settings: Identity git config --global user.name "John Doe" git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com Editor git config --global core.editor "'C:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin" (lab1.3) End of Line Preferences git config --global core.autocrlf true git config --global core.safecrlf true Check your settings: ...