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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @04:24AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @04:24AM (#996746)

    Can you explain to me why updating Firefox silently installed systemd on one of my machines? Because that happened, and it left that system unbootable. Both KDE and Gnome have undeclared dependencies on systemd, and every other desktop environment is under pressure to follow suit. I never wanted the damned thing in the first place. Now get off my lawn.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @09:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @09:42PM (#997108)

    Because your distribution maintainers suck at their job, would be my first guess. My second guess would be you were using a distro, that you then highly customized outside of the expected norm. If you want full control of your system use a distro that provides that, you want an "easy to use" all-in-one solution, don't be shocked when your hyper-customizationed system breaks during an update.