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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by xboxnolifes on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:16PM (#44032925)
My only big gripe with WSL right now is GUI applications. wslg is not good, and the only good experience is when applications have a good remote development UX such as vscode.

Another, smaller, gripe is networking. Because of how WSL is networked, I've run into edge-case issues with connecting to networked applications running in WSL from Windows.

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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by 0xbadcafebee on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:32PM (#44034510)
Run a rootless X server (XWin, Xming) on Windows, network the two (SSH tunnel), you have GUI Linux apps on Windows.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by okanat on Monday May 19, 2025 @04:59PM (#44034784)
You need to make sure that they use Wayland. Running X11 apps is significantly slower in wslg. Native Wayland apps run much faster.
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Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source by sigwinch on Monday May 19, 2025 @06:31PM (#44035660)
Lack of all packet types disqualified it for me. Is there any hope for nmap, etc?
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