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No. No GUI applications (currently, and no announced future support... and I wouldn't bank on them doing it).

by NateDad 11y ago

ramy_d 11y ago
vim?
- 15155 11y ago
  Presumably, as it's not a GUI application. Not gvim though.
- paradite 11y ago
  It's in the list given by author: apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch...
  - stephengillie 11y ago
    At least half of these already exist, either as .NET cmdlets, Command Prompt functions, or Windows EXEs. RDP, Robocopy, Find.exe, Sort-Object, Select-Object, Select-String, Invoke-WebRequest, Invoke-RESTMethod, IIS, .NET, CMD, ASP.NET, and Compare-Object will fill most of those needs. And Powershell accepts "cat" if "gc" for "Get-Content" is too long. Or "ls" if "dir" or "gci" for "Get-ChildItem" is too long. And each of these is a case-insensitive object you can pipe right into ConvertTo-Html or Send-MailMessage. Or you can create a UDP socket with .NET right from Powershell, and send your objects that way.
- icc97 11y ago
  You can already run vim from the msys git distribution
  - rhabarba 11y ago
    There is also a native Vim, compiled with Visual Studio: http://tuxproject.de/projects/vim http://tuxproject.de/projects/vim
- zodiakzz 11y ago
  It's already working as shown in the video demo: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488 https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488
- deleted 11y ago
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- stephengillie 11y ago
  It works really well in Powershell. I use it on Win8. https://juliankay.com/development/setting-up-vim-to-work-with-powershell https://juliankay.com/development/setting-up-vim-to-work-wit...
webreac 11y ago
If ubuntu can run, you just need Xming to have all GUI applications.
anthk 11y ago
If GUI applications run X, any X server on ayn architecture which supports the X11 protocol will work. Check out XMing.
mcpherrinm 11y ago
Fortunately X11 is "network transparent" and there's X11 servers for windows. It shouldn't actually be that hard to make this work (though the perf will probably be pretty bad in a naive implementation). At very worst you could SSH to localhost and X11-forward to the same host -- but you can optimize that.
- anthk 11y ago
  Nope, XMing works perfectly if you export the display to localhost (the default) and it's really fast, it even has GL support with MESA , with hardware acceleration.
  - kristianp 11y ago
    I found apps using xming in a VM to be quite laggy, not fast to the point where I could use them regularly. e.g. SublimeText.
  - ionelm 11y ago
    It doesn't. It's outdated and not free. This should be way more known: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
- julian_1 11y ago
  Wayland might be a cleaner api layer to integrate into the windows display subsystems.
  - techdragon 11y ago
    Or we could use X11 right now with one of the several existing X11 display servers that work on Windows :-)
    - petecox 11y ago
      headless, you're still stuck with Windows Explorer as a window manager. I don't use a particularly fancy WM/DE under Linux but it's the little things such as middle click paste, and window operations such as maximize horizontal/vertical (by using the middle and right mouse buttons) that I miss.
baq 11y ago
i recently discovered mobaxterm's awesome automatic x server and x forwarding. suddenly i find myself gvim'ing on my (non-prod) servers. i imagine it'll be similarly easy but better.
ldehaan 11y ago
not yet, and probably not likely, but if you're interested in running winders on a Linux i have x2go instance for testing and it works quite well. I use an internal gb network though, so your experience will vary.
ryao 11y ago
If they implement dri, alsa and evdev (without subtle implementation bugs), then Windows would be a decent development platform for Linux games and such games could run on both Windows and Linux. If Apple joins the party, it would be write once, run anywhere. :)

No. No GUI applications (currently, and no announced future support... and I wouldn't bank on them doing it).

by NateDad 11y ago

No. No GUI applications (currently, and no announced future support... and I wouldn't bank on them doing it).

ramy_d 11y ago

vim?

15155 11y ago
Presumably, as it's not a GUI application. Not gvim though.
paradite 11y ago
It's in the list given by author: apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch...
- stephengillie 11y ago
  At least half of these already exist, either as .NET cmdlets, Command Prompt functions, or Windows EXEs. RDP, Robocopy, Find.exe, Sort-Object, Select-Object, Select-String, Invoke-WebRequest, Invoke-RESTMethod, IIS, .NET, CMD, ASP.NET, and Compare-Object will fill most of those needs. And Powershell accepts "cat" if "gc" for "Get-Content" is too long. Or "ls" if "dir" or "gci" for "Get-ChildItem" is too long. And each of these is a case-insensitive object you can pipe right into ConvertTo-Html or Send-MailMessage. Or you can create a UDP socket with .NET right from Powershell, and send your objects that way.
icc97 11y ago
You can already run vim from the msys git distribution
- rhabarba 11y ago
  There is also a native Vim, compiled with Visual Studio: http://tuxproject.de/projects/vim http://tuxproject.de/projects/vim
zodiakzz 11y ago
It's already working as shown in the video demo: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488 https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488
deleted 11y ago
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stephengillie 11y ago
It works really well in Powershell. I use it on Win8. https://juliankay.com/development/setting-up-vim-to-work-with-powershell https://juliankay.com/development/setting-up-vim-to-work-wit...

webreac 11y ago

If ubuntu can run, you just need Xming to have all GUI applications.

anthk 11y ago

If GUI applications run X, any X server on ayn architecture which supports the X11 protocol will work. Check out XMing.

mcpherrinm 11y ago

Fortunately X11 is "network transparent" and there's X11 servers for windows. It shouldn't actually be that hard to make this work (though the perf will probably be pretty bad in a naive implementation). At very worst you could SSH to localhost and X11-forward to the same host -- but you can optimize that.

anthk 11y ago
Nope, XMing works perfectly if you export the display to localhost (the default) and it's really fast, it even has GL support with MESA , with hardware acceleration.
- kristianp 11y ago
  I found apps using xming in a VM to be quite laggy, not fast to the point where I could use them regularly. e.g. SublimeText.
- ionelm 11y ago
  It doesn't. It's outdated and not free. This should be way more known: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
julian_1 11y ago
Wayland might be a cleaner api layer to integrate into the windows display subsystems.
- techdragon 11y ago
  Or we could use X11 right now with one of the several existing X11 display servers that work on Windows :-)
  - petecox 11y ago
    headless, you're still stuck with Windows Explorer as a window manager. I don't use a particularly fancy WM/DE under Linux but it's the little things such as middle click paste, and window operations such as maximize horizontal/vertical (by using the middle and right mouse buttons) that I miss.

baq 11y ago

i recently discovered mobaxterm's awesome automatic x server and x forwarding. suddenly i find myself gvim'ing on my (non-prod) servers. i imagine it'll be similarly easy but better.

ldehaan 11y ago

not yet, and probably not likely, but if you're interested in running winders on a Linux i have x2go instance for testing and it works quite well. I use an internal gb network though, so your experience will vary.

ryao 11y ago

If they implement dri, alsa and evdev (without subtle implementation bugs), then Windows would be a decent development platform for Linux games and such games could run on both Windows and Linux. If Apple joins the party, it would be write once, run anywhere. :)