Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Once you keep your software repos (working directories) and other configuration in a Windows location that you just symlink into Linux, you can update the entire Linux underneath of you and at most you'll have to pip install a few things. Even your active Jupyter Python kernels come back from tabs you left open in JupyterLab. This is a slick way to upgrade versions occasionally because you always get the latest Jupyter. Anyone who's tried to upgrade their Anaconda Jupyter knows what I'm talking about.
Once you keep your software repos (working directories) and other configuration in a Windows location that you just symlink into Linux, you can update the entire Linux underneath of you and at most you'll have to pip install a few things. Even your active Jupyter Python kernels come back from tabs you left open in JupyterLab. This is a slick way to upgrade versions occasionally because you always get the latest Jupyter. Anyone who's tried to upgrade their Anaconda Jupyter knows what I'm talking about.
