A native method of running GUI applications in WSL2 is coming, I believe it'll be in GA in the Fall 2021 release: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wha

A native method of running GUI applications in WSL2 is coming, I believe it'll be in GA in the Fall 2021 release: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2020/#gui-apps https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-... XDC 2020 talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mnbyRgXkY&t=7975s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mnbyRgXkY&t=7975s For Windows Insiders running preview builds, I believe some of the pieces are present but not preconfigured. The XDC 2020 conference talk discusses the advantages of the built-in support, including fewer memory copies and lower latency.