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Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by gigel82 on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:22PM (#28488323)
IIRC, they were primarily interested in getting GPU acceleration (for ML tasks) to work in WSL2.

I presume getting GUI working on top of those GPU APIs was a trivial task (and maybe done by one of their interns or during a hackathon).

Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by mook on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:44PM (#28489270)
It sounds like they did significant work getting the whole stack to work well, from Wayland to the RDP back-end to improvements to the RDP client on the Win32 side.

Your interns must be rock stars on meth.

Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by kafkaIncarnate on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:07AM (#28490517)
Most likely energy drinks + Adderall + financial insecurity. Adderall, Meth, same thing.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by reilly3000 on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:36PM (#28488401)
That sounds like the killer app. GPU passthru can be an absolutely gnarly undertaking with any virtualization system.
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by PufPufPuf on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:55PM (#28488509)
GPU passthrough on WSL2 is a thing since around December 2020 -- but I'm not sure if it's in stable yet, I had to install an insider build for it. It works surprisingly well and I was able to develop my ML project using it (with the help of VSCode devcontainers)
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by jimmaswell on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:07AM (#28489350)
Why did you want to develop it through WSL2 instead of just compiling it on windows?
Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by gobookdev on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:38PM (#28488409)
Anyone could already do it with a few lines of code.

Edit: Seems people don't believe me, here's an article how to do it: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-dev-appconsul...

Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI by rrss on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:49PM (#28488779)
That shows how to set up an X server in windows that WSL can access. How do you get GPU acceleration for ML tasks using X11?