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WSL does now have native support for USB devices, which means it can't detect the Yubikey plugged into your computer. It seems like USB support will come soon, but for now we need to use a workaround.

The workaround consists in exposing a GPG socket from Windows to your WSL Linux instance. That way, your WSL's gpg command will connect to your Windows's gpg software and will be able to detect your USB Yubikey.

Install GnuPG on Windows
Install Putty on Windows
Run the following 2 commands in Powershell to create your GPG conf file:

Virtualenv on WSL with ZSH

Install PIP

sudo apt install python-pip
sudo apt install python3-pip

pip --version
pip3 --version

How to access Ionic Storage SQLite DB from the console

var db = window.sqlitePlugin.openDatabase({name: 'NAME_OF_YOUR_STORAGE', location: 'default', androidDatabaseImplementation: 2});

db.transaction(function(tx) {
    tx.executeSql("SELECT * FROM _ionickv", [], function(tx, rs) {
 var records = [];

Run Visual Studio Code for Linux from WSL

Thanks a lot to mredbishop and others for their insturctions posted here. This is just a recap of what they figured out.

This process was tested on WSL Ubuntu 18.04.

Install VcXsrv on Windows

Dowload the VcXsrv installer from https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
Install the software on Windows

Add VS Code repositories

Ionic Android Development on WSL

Installing the required software

Execute the following commands to install Node, npm, git, Java, Ionic, Cordova and Angular CLI:

cd ~
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

	# Example Stack that shows how to process every possible WhatsApp message type
	# This is still under development and the syntax might change before it's finalized and
	# published in our docs.

	card Start, then: ProcessResponse do
	response =
	ask("""
	Please reply with any kind of message.

	Supported message types are:

	# Install the following on Windows:
	# - Install CLI https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win/releases
	# - and GUI https://gitlab.com/alelec/wsl-usb-gui/-/releases

	# - Build custom WSL kernel following the "Build Custom Kernel" instructions at https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win/wiki/WSL-support
	# BUT also enable the following:
	# Device Drivers --->
	# HID Support --->
	# Check /dev/hidraw raw HID device support
	# Check HID Support -> User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem