Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo...
by Our_Benefactors on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:31PM
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WSL exists in windows 10 also. What’s the advantage of 11?
Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo...
by ElevenLathe on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:33PM
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AFAICT there's no easy way to run Linux GUI apps in Win10 -- you need to run an X server in Windows and have the GUI apps connect over the "network". In Win11 it just works.
Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo...
by minifigone on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:46PM
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This actually changed somewhat recently (I'm not sure exactly when), but I tried it the other night and was able to run k3b gui from wsl2 on win10.
Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo...
by justinclift on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:47PM
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Apparently, WSLg does away with the need for a separate X server, making things easy to use:
https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
The "Apparently" is there because it's not something I've tried myself (I'm a Linux desktop user), instead it's something several of our users have tried and said works:
https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/issues/2142#i...
Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo...
by ElevenLathe on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:16AM
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This is great info. I'll definitely give it a try on the Win10 machine I have for work. I would love to get rid of Cygwin.
Yes, I know I can use a "native" Windows version of Emacs, but to be comfortable I need more than just Emacs itself: I also need a Unix-y environment for it to live in. WSL provides exactly that.
I am still going to run Linux on the laptop long-term, but it's changed my mind for the next corporate refresh cycle. We usually get a choice of a Dell Windows machine or a Mac. I was leaning toward Mac for this next round, but I may stick with the Dell if I can get it in Win11.