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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-linux-on-the-desktop dept.

Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10:

Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration

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.

While it has been possible to run Linux GUI apps within Windows previously using a third-party X server, poor graphics performance has always been an issue. Microsoft is promising to solve this, too. Windows 10 will soon get added support for GPU hardware acceleration with Linux tools. This is primarily focused on development scenarios involving parallels computation or training machine learning and artificial intelligence models.

So is it the year of Linux on the Desktop?


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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:57AM (4 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:57AM (#996661) Journal

    Genuine Microsoft Windows Linux is coming.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by captain normal on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:58AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @03:58AM (#996738)

    Finally the age of the Linux Desktop on our PCs. /s

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:59PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @02:59PM (#996915) Journal

    Microsoft Google Edge Chrome was just the beginning. Soon, it shall be Windows Linux 10.10.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Wednesday May 20 2020, @09:33PM (1 child)

      by DECbot (832) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @09:33PM (#997103) Journal

      They will hide the Linux part and it will be simply Microsoft Windows X11. Five years later, the next product would be MS Windows X11 - Wayland Edition.

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      • (Score: 1) by petecox on Wednesday May 20 2020, @11:13PM

        by petecox (3228) on Wednesday May 20 2020, @11:13PM (#997139)
        According to Phoronix [phoronix.com], it is Wayland.

        One of the complaints of Wayland is network transparency, which is served over RDP.