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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by contravariant on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:27AM (#24599090)
You can, although most packages are written assuming Linux and getting stuff like tramps to work (which requires paths that are apparently impossibly to type in windows), is a bit of a challenge.

Of all the issues I've had with emacs about 80% of them could be traced to running emacs on windows. Not through any fault on windows side mind (except possibly the insane decision to use a different path syntax).

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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by Siira on Saturday September 26, 2020 @10:34AM (#24599145)
That insane decision has been made deliberately to make competitors incompatible.
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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by enzo1982 on Saturday September 26, 2020 @11:18AM (#24599442)
No it hasn't. [0]

Unless you want to claim the Unix developers deliberately chose the slash as a path separator to be incompatible with TOPS-10. That could be.

[0] http://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-back...

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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by goatinaboat on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:05AM (#24604820)
That insane decision has been made deliberately to make competitors incompatible.

Not inconceivable. After all Windows is called w32 in Emacs not win32 as is common everywhere else because RMS couldn’t bear to think “win” in association with MS!

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