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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by thrower123 on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:19PM (#28487011)
What Linux desktop apps do people want to run on Windows?

I'm struggling to think of anything I would use that isn't ported alteady, being GTK or QT or Java based.

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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by zzandd on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:56PM (#28487350)
The use case I care about, and I imagine the use case Microsoft do as well, is developing for Linux on windows, so running an ide and not having to worry about a complicated cross compiling toolchain backing it.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by certifiedloud on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:25PM (#28487059)
As someone who is forced to use either Mac or Windows at work, I would love this for the sole purpose of using i3 again.
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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by rocqua on Friday September 10, 2021 @06:02PM (#28487402)
I imagine if your app needs to interact with your Linux system, running it within WSL is a lot nicer.
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