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WSL exists in windows 10 also. What’s the advantage of 11?

• ElevenLathe 3y ago
  AFAICT there's no easy way to run Linux GUI apps in Win10 -- you need to run an X server in Windows and have the GUI apps connect over the "network". In Win11 it just works.
  • minifigone 3y ago
    This actually changed somewhat recently (I'm not sure exactly when), but I tried it the other night and was able to run k3b gui from wsl2 on win10.
  • justinclift 3y ago
    Apparently, WSLg does away with the need for a separate X server, making things easy to use: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg https://github.com/microsoft/wslg The "Apparently" is there because it's not something I've tried myself (I'm a Linux desktop user), instead it's something several of our users have tried and said works: https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/issues/2142#issuecomment-1328262332 https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/issues/2142#i...
    • ElevenLathe 3y ago
      This is great info. I'll definitely give it a try on the Win10 machine I have for work. I would love to get rid of Cygwin.