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Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview - GUI App Support With Windows Subsystem For Linux
I'm amazed. Just like that, they came out with a means of running Linux GUI applications on Windows. Mega plus that they used Weston for the Wayland compositor.
Weston was always crap as-is in Linux, despite being the reference compositor. No proper window management, nothing to immediately expose all windows in a grid like how Gnome (Win key), Plasma (Ctrl + F8) and Windows 10 (Win key + Tab) does it.
Now Microsoft actually made Weston usable, albeit in Windows.
Definitely looking forward to seeing how the finished WSLg solution will look like.
Wait.... So you need to run a rdp client to get the gui?
I don't understand why wsl is attractive at all. If you have to run a client viewer, might as well run a VM
They are trying to stop developer exodus.
Their intentions with anything they do aren't good for anybody but Microsoft.
Microsoft only cares about Microsoft, only loves Microsoft.
The Extinguish phase will happen if the Linux ecosystem begins to treat the WSL as if it is part of the family and facilitate its extension in a single direction (Microsoft's)
You mean they are a capitalist company and act accordingly?
You have to own something, not give it away for free to anyone hoping for a donation.
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