WSL Getting GUI Support

Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by SweetestRug on Saturday September 26, 2020 @11:31AM (#24599533)

Exciting, but let's see how long this takes to be released (not to insiders). I was excited when WSL 2 was announced, but it took almost a year to be released to stable. I had immediate needs that WSL 1 couldnt meet, and I could not run Insiders builds in my environment.

By the time WSL 2 actually was out, I had migrated completely to Linux. I'll keep checking MS progress here, but in many ways they already lost me and many others.

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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by dstaley on Saturday September 26, 2020 @05:49PM (#24602440)

I'm glad Microsoft is doing development out in the open, but I really wish they'd do a better job of isolating features like WSL from the underlying OS. I'd gladly run an insider build of WSL, but with their track record of stability for their general releases, it terrifies me to think of running an Insider build of Windows.

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Re:WSL Getting GUI Support by hackerfromthefu on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:07AM (#24613439)

I've been running insider for a couple of years with no issues, using the 'slow ring'/not bleeding edge.

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