How to make ROS Kinetic/Melodic work on Windows 10

This approach uses Windows Subsystems for Linux, WSL for short.

1. Go to Microsoft Store and install Ubnutu 18.04 LTS (for ROS Melodic) or Ubnutu 16.04 LTS (for ROS Kinetic) follow this video
2. Open the installed Ubuntu distro you just installed and install ROS on it
3. In install MobaXterm and follow the following article

Tips and tricks

Add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc

export DISPLAY=192.168.0.183:0.0 # or whatever you read on MobaXterm
alias open='explorer.exe .'
alias coding='cd /mnt/c( or any partion name like d or e)/[folder where your code is]'

Troubleshooting

If faced with error messages related to D-bus read this article

If faced with error related to Segmentation error Segmentation fault (core dumped) add the following to your ~/.bashrc

export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=

The solution was found here

With the help of this

How to make Windows Terminal behave like Terminator from Ubuntu

Open Windows Terminal and press Ctrl+, and copy the setting in profile.json

Make SSH and Github work without asking for Passphrase all the time

Add this to ~/.bashrc

env=~/.ssh/agent.env

agent_load_env () { test -f "$env" && . "$env" >| /dev/null ; }

agent_start () {
    (umask 077; ssh-agent >| "$env")
    . "$env" >| /dev/null ; }

agent_load_env

# agent_run_state: 0=agent running w/ key; 1=agent w/o key; 2= agent not running
agent_run_state=$(ssh-add -l >| /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)

if [ ! "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] || [ $agent_run_state = 2 ]; then
    agent_start
    ssh-add
elif [ "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] && [ $agent_run_state = 1 ]; then
    ssh-add
fi

unset env

My specific ROS sourcings

Add these to ~/.bashrc

source /opt/ros/kinetic/setup.bash
source /mnt/d/coding/svea_research/devel/setup.bash
alias qtdesigner='qtchooser -run-tool=designer -qt=5'