Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windows 11?

Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo... by ElevenLathe on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:33PM (#35807390)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo... by minifigone on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:46PM (#35807539)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo... by justinclift on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:47PM (#35807567)

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...

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Re:Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windo... by ElevenLathe on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:16AM (#35814784)

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.

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