How do I use Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (WSL) for my VS Code terminal?

While other questions deal with how to use things like git-bash, giving the new WSL a spin as the terminal for VS Code is not the same: it gives you access to bash running on an actual Ubuntu Linux subsystem, instead of the git-bash terminal running on the Windows subsystem. So how do we get it working as the VS Code terminal, and particularly how do we get it working as a functional dev environme

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