Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by wvenable on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:37PM (#26895762)

With WSL1 way back, I ran GUI apps using a Win32 X server. I had some Linux GUI tools that I needed to be able to run and it was pretty seamless.

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by litoorachure on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:50PM (#26896393)

I actually still use WSL1 and vcxsrv to do that when I use Windows.

It is seamless, even the icons that show up in the Windows taskbar are correct.

If this new WSL2 experience works just as well, I might finally switch :)

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by B1FF_PSUVM on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:59PM (#26895977)

I was somewhat surprised that WSL1 could run the valgrind memory checks at least well enough to match results of basic tests on a real Linux machine.

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