How to code on own computer? HELP

Question

Hi, I’m currently learning C and I want to practice coding on my own computer. I work in vs code but my computer is Windows. It doesn’t listen to certain commands like chmod and I also can’t compile my code bc it doesn’t understand gcc. I already downloaded the C extension and also Linux I think. But idk what else to download on my computer to get it to listen to mostly basic and common used commands for terminal.

Answer 1

A Windows terminal won't listen to Linux commands, mostly.

Do you mean you have set up a Linux subsystem on Windows following these instructions?
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-wsl