Switching from PowerShell to Bash: Setting Up WSL and Running Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code

If you’ve been using PowerShell but keep seeing tutorials written for Bash, switching environments can feel confusing. In this guide, I show how I installed Windows Subsystem for Linux, opened Bash inside Visual Studio Code, and used Azure CLI to create and manage resources in Microsoft Azure. Setting up a development environment is often one of the first steps when working with cloud platforms and command-line tools. In a previous guide, I configured my environment using Visual Studio Code and explored how to run commands through the default PowerShell terminal while interacting with Microsoft Azure using Azure CLI. While working with variables and commands in PowerShell, I ran into several syntax-related errors. One of the most common issues was forgetting that PowerShell requires variables to begin with the $ symbol. These small syntax rules caused unexpected errors and made me realize how much command behavior can differ between shell environments. This curiosity led me to explore