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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @01:36PM (#996871)

    Just run any windows x server and most linux gui programs work, also you can run any program off a remote server through a ssh session once you have an x server. There are stacks of free ones, just choose one.

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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday May 20 2020, @06:04PM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 20 2020, @06:04PM (#997009) Journal

    Forwarding X over SSH would allow any application to run. That won't tie people further into M$ products. They might even end up running GNU/Linux applications natively and not inside WSL2. These applications, once infected with DirectX, will only run on Window's new Linux Subsystem for Windows (WSL2) and nowhere else.

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