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Graphical interface won't work well inside WSL, that's why I dropped my subscription on GitKraken and start using lazygit. lazygit simply works in almost any en

Graphical interface won't work well inside WSL, that's why I dropped my subscription on GitKraken and start using lazygit. lazygit simply works in almost any environment, and it works extremely well even if you are not into terminal stuff.

notpushkin 10mo ago
Yeah, that’s the power of TUI. I would probably give it a go, too, but Git Cola works for me on Linux and Mac without too many issues. (By “works anywhere”, I meant you can use it with any IDE or editor, or just run it from terminal, though it is cross-platform and should work on Windows, just not sure how well it would play with WSL.)
- wkat4242 10mo ago
  Yeah I really wish VSCode had a TUI option :( That would be so useful and so much more performant
  - _virtu 10mo ago
    What’s stopping you from using it in the terminal view of VSCode? Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your comment so please forgive me if I am. Maybe you’re saying that you wish VSCose itself was a TUI?
    - wkat4242 10mo ago
      Yes the latter, that it did have a TUI option for its interface.
      - notpushkin 10mo ago
        I think I’ve seen a project running vscode as a server (?) and rendering it in terminal, but I can’t find it now. There’s a lot of decent TUI editors nowadays though, and with LSP they’re pretty on-par with vscode. Maybe try Micro? https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/
  - tracker1 10mo ago
    A TUI editor with a lot of the features of VS Code could be pretty cool... Basically a relatively thin shell on the remote editor server.
ffsm8 10mo ago
Really? While there its certainly slightly annoying because they have the "double menu bar" if they use a non-standard one like the jetbrains ides do... I feel like wsl gui support has essentially become a "solved issue" for a while now.
- shunia_huang 10mo ago
  Yes and no, GitKraken actually have a graphical interface for WSL (or Linux generally), but it is barely usable as the WSL-g does not really work well. It's blurry for Hi-Res screen and the performance is like hell. I would never try running any graphical stuff in WSL anymore, not worth it. VMWare with a graphical installation of any Linux system would be a preferred choice as I'm testing lately.
  - Datagenerator 10mo ago
    Or Proxmox or just virt-manager
    - notpushkin 10mo ago
      Hmmm, is there a native virt-manager build on Windows? Though I suppose running it in WSL and connecting with an external SPICE client would work just as well. (I’m wondering if there’s a way to just run SPICE server in WSL.)

notpushkin 10mo ago

Yeah, that’s the power of TUI. I would probably give it a go, too, but Git Cola works for me on Linux and Mac without too many issues. (By “works anywhere”, I meant you can use it with any IDE or editor, or just run it from terminal, though it is cross-platform and should work on Windows, just not sure how well it would play with WSL.)

wkat4242 10mo ago
Yeah I really wish VSCode had a TUI option :( That would be so useful and so much more performant
- _virtu 10mo ago
  What’s stopping you from using it in the terminal view of VSCode? Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your comment so please forgive me if I am. Maybe you’re saying that you wish VSCose itself was a TUI?
  - wkat4242 10mo ago
    Yes the latter, that it did have a TUI option for its interface.
    - notpushkin 10mo ago
      I think I’ve seen a project running vscode as a server (?) and rendering it in terminal, but I can’t find it now. There’s a lot of decent TUI editors nowadays though, and with LSP they’re pretty on-par with vscode. Maybe try Micro? https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/
- tracker1 10mo ago
  A TUI editor with a lot of the features of VS Code could be pretty cool... Basically a relatively thin shell on the remote editor server.

ffsm8 10mo ago

Really? While there its certainly slightly annoying because they have the "double menu bar" if they use a non-standard one like the jetbrains ides do... I feel like wsl gui support has essentially become a "solved issue" for a while now.

shunia_huang 10mo ago
Yes and no, GitKraken actually have a graphical interface for WSL (or Linux generally), but it is barely usable as the WSL-g does not really work well. It's blurry for Hi-Res screen and the performance is like hell. I would never try running any graphical stuff in WSL anymore, not worth it. VMWare with a graphical installation of any Linux system would be a preferred choice as I'm testing lately.
- Datagenerator 10mo ago
  Or Proxmox or just virt-manager
  - notpushkin 10mo ago
    Hmmm, is there a native virt-manager build on Windows? Though I suppose running it in WSL and connecting with an external SPICE client would work just as well. (I’m wondering if there’s a way to just run SPICE server in WSL.)