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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2020, @10:36PM (1 child)
I was sad to see Stallman get booted, but honestly he dug his own grave. It is simply the sad state of public comments, on the whole humanity does not do well with nuance. Trying to debate the fine points of pedophilia and outliers that probably shouldn't be grouped as pedophilia is just a terrible terrible terrible thing to argue about in emails. Pair that with his previous gaffes and "jokes" like "hot girls only" or whatever the note was outside his office door, well, yeah he did it to himself.
He needed someone to manage his PR and set him straight on acceptable behavior. Quite frankly he was given a tremendous amount of slack throughout his time at MIT.
I do agree that there is likely larger powers using the scandal to push him out and that is a shame. However, as long as misogynerds keep shrieking about being woke it will be incredibly easy to get people kicked out for crossing the professional line. Bigotry is getting the hammer, and we nerds need to just accept that instead of crying about not being able to say faggot or nigger. Dig your own holes if you wish, I'll stick to adapting to new cultural norms myself instead of becoming the asshole no one wants around.
(Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Thursday May 21 2020, @03:33PM
That this is the world we live in is actually dangerous. This is where the alt rights, or extremisms come from. For every action there is a reaction. If you push things too much in one direction regardless of being morally right or wrong you will make the system less stable and easily trigger "explosive" rebalances. More and more i see human societies as dynamic systems that need to accept good and bad or they will eventually veer into extremes of either way.