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> At this point the best Linux Desktop is Windows with WSL2 I tried this once to see if I could run the Linux-version of Emacs, on Windows, because the native
by josteink 4y ago
> At this point the best Linux Desktop is Windows with WSL2
I tried this once to see if I could run the Linux-version of Emacs, on Windows, because the native Windows-version has terrible performance.
After an hour or so if fiddling I still couldn’t get X-forwarding working and concluded that WSL2 is a console-only toy.
It’s not near being a complete enough Linux-environment.
- raghavkukreti 4y agoThat seems like bad metric to define the state of WSL since X-forwarding is very easy to do. You just install https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/, run it, then `export DISPLAY="$(grep nameserver /etc/resolv.conf | sed 's/nameserver //'):0"` in WSL and you're good to go.
- echeese 4y agoIt may be worth trying again. On the latest version of WSL2 I've had success in running stuff like Firefox right out of the box.
- forgotpwd16 4y agoWSL nowadays provides native graphics and sound support.