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The transition is already happening. WSL2 on Windows 11 runs X11 and Wayland apps. Full linux exprience on Windows Server Core is just one release away. See h
by sam_lowry_ 5y ago
The transition is already happening. WSL2 on Windows 11 runs X11 and Wayland apps.
Full linux exprience on Windows Server Core is just one release away.
See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-a...
- monocasa 5y agoThat's not really a transition though. Windows applications aren't running on the WSL2 kernel. It's just making the use of the underlying hyperv more seamless. It's closer to an IBM model, where they could care less what's running in an LPAR, and explicitly support Linux there, but the legacy stuff is what keeps the bills paid.
- sam_lowry_ 5y agoI couldn't care less about running Windows apps in WSL2. But I want full linux experience in the stifling corporate environment and Windows 11 is a notch closer to delivering it. So far, I have to launch VcXsrv for Linux GUI apps. It works OK, but Windows network reconfiguration breaks connectivity once in a while.