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

Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by salzig on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:56AM (#26899612)

Maybe it's just me, but after testing Steam on Linux, which promised a good coverage [1][2], i'm more and more feeling like replacing the only left Windows device with linux. The only thing that would make sense for me, is that microsoft should port their UI to linux and handle their backwards compability with wine.

I mean, what is the benefit of keeping their own kernel, when obviously they understand that another kernel and userspace is more and more important, and even used by them selfs.

1: Protondb: https://www.protondb.com/ 2: ProtonDB Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25333219

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by larodi on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:37AM (#26900315)

Microsoft porting ‘their UI’ to whatever sounds like a massive misunderstanding of what Microsoft’s UI is and how it works...

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by irrational on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:39AM (#26899898)

Except, not all games on Steam work on Linux. I’m primarily a Mac user, but I have a windows partition on my laptop so that I can play steam games that are Windows only. It would be fantastic if there was no such thing as Windows only games anymore.

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by salzig on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:43AM (#26899938)

I so far stumbled upon only a single game that doesn't work on linux for me, and it's not because the game is not working, but because the anti-cheat tool has problems and the game doesn't let me join multiplayer sessions.

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by ahD5zae7 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @05:47AM (#26900739)

Well I'd be inclined to agree with the parent as even per the link to ProtonDB included by the GP about 40% (as of this moment) out of top 10 most popular games are not working under Linux (status: borked). I love linux and use it 90% of the time every day but I also have an old and derelict windows partition just so I can launch a game or two from time to time. Maybe the day will come when all games work flawlessly on Linux and I certainly hope it will. But evidence suggests that we have still some way to go...

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Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys... by dbeley on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:17AM (#26902390)

I have been primarily using Linux as my main gaming system, and I can say it's pretty great.

Among the games that did run flawlessly for me are The Witcher 3, Skyrim, GTA 5, numerous indie games (Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Northgard, etc.) and so much more!

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