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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by josteink on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:41AM (#34206589)
> At this point the best Linux Desktop is Windows with WSL2

I tried this once to see if I could run the Linux-version of Emacs, on Windows, because the native Windows-version has terrible performance.

After an hour or so if fiddling I still couldn’t get X-forwarding working and concluded that WSL2 is a console-only toy.

It’s not near being a complete enough Linux-environment.

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by forgotpwd16 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @10:39AM (#34207137)
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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by raghavkukreti on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:55AM (#34206698)
That seems like bad metric to define the state of WSL since X-forwarding is very easy to do.

You just install https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/, run it, then

`export DISPLAY="$(grep nameserver /etc/resolv.conf | sed 's/nameserver //'):0"` in WSL and you're good to go.

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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by echeese on Sunday January 01, 2023 @10:07AM (#34206811)
It may be worth trying again. On the latest version of WSL2 I've had success in running stuff like Firefox right out of the box.
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