GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available

Re:GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux... by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:58PM (#34785088)

> Windows is effectively dead outside of desktops.

cough laptops cough

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Re:GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:27AM (#34786138)

Okay.

I mean, people call those desktops a lot of the time in broad conversations about architectures. Did you have a point that affects their actual argument?

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Re:GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux... by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:36AM (#34790801)

Well, mostly that there are not that many desktops being sold or used these days, but still lots and lots and lots of laptops. So if Windows is still king of the laptops, its very, very far from being "dead".

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Re:GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux... by LeFantome on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:37AM (#34786205)

I think it is reasonable to assume they mean “desktop apps”. Windows is a platform to run desktop apps and that is the area where it leads. Windows laptops also run desktop apps. Laptop apps is not a category.

The other big buckets are mobile and server but “mobile” as an application category does not refer to laptops.

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