Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10

[shmu26]

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https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263377/microsoft-windows-10-linux-gui-apps-gpu-acceleration-wsl-features

Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with GUI app support and GPU hardware acceleration. The software giant is adding a full Linux kernel to Windows 10 with WSL version 2 later this month, and it’s now planning to support Linux GUI apps that will run alongside regular Windows apps.


This will be enabled without Windows users having to use X11 forwarding, and it’s mainly designed for developers to run Linux integrated development environments (IDE) alongside regular Windows apps.

Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10

Developers will be able to run Linux apps side by side with Windows ones

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[Brahman]

Anyone remember "Lindows" and how microsoft was hell bend to shut them down?

 

[shmu26]

Anyone remember "Lindows" and how microsoft was hell bend to shut them down?

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[Nagisa]

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[shmu26]

I sure hope this thing succeeds, because I would love to run my browsers in linux without leaving windows. That would be utopian. Not because of security, but just because they run better in linux.