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?
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Wednesday May 20 2020, @09:33PM (1 child)
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.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 1) by petecox on Wednesday May 20 2020, @11:13PM
One of the complaints of Wayland is network transparency, which is served over RDP.