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Re:Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:33PM (#12820379)
Gotcha, but you haven't tried a GUI or anything?
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Re:Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for by ChuckMcM on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:54PM (#12820589)
Nope, there is no xserver so really nothing to talk to locally. For grins, and because you asked, I did an install of gimp and verified I couldn't figure out how to get it to run :-)
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Re:Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for by majewsky on Saturday October 29, 2016 @09:28AM (#12823845)
> Nope, there is no xserver so really nothing to talk to locally.

I think the relevant Google keyword for this is "vcxsrv", an X server running under Windows. I saw something about people using it in WSL to launch regular Unix applications talking to X, but don't remember where.

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Re:Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for by ChuckMcM on Saturday October 29, 2016 @01:24PM (#12825056)
I actually have a license to xwin32, I wonder if I can get it running under windows 10 ...
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