Microsoft Posts WSLg Preview - GUI App Support With Windows Subsystem For Linux

[andyprough]

Came to this thread to find idiots screeching "EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH!!11!!!1!", was not disappointed.

You came in hopes that people were screeching something that they weren't, so you screeched it yourself to make yourself happy.

I'm proud of you.

[smitty3268]

You came in hopes that people were screeching something that they weren't, so you screeched it yourself to make yourself happy.

I'm proud of you.

It was literally in the first comment.

[andyprough]

It was literally in the first comment.

But it wasn't screeched.

[aspen]

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You came in hopes that people were screeching something that they weren't, so you screeched it yourself to make yourself happy.

I'm proud of you.

lmao average phoronix user can't read and spews BS, what's new.

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/foru...45#post1252345
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/foru...52#post1252352

But it wasn't screeched.

nice strawman, now be quiet.

[andyprough]

lmao average phoronix user can't read and spews BS, what's new.

nice strawman, now be quiet.

Average iPad fanboy

[Sonadow]

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.

[Paradigm Shifter]

Oddly (?) I've had no trouble getting the few GUI Linux applications I actually need to use on Windows to run even before this, using Xming.

I'm far more interested in solid CUDA (and hopefully ROCm) support - CUDA already sort of works, but not well for the applications I want to run.

[poncho524]

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

[DarkCloud]

Imagine a world where you can run a window app on Linux with Wine and have the Linux run on Windows wsl which is running on your Mac in a VM.

[cl333r]

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.

I hope clear older minds will prevail.

You mean socialism sympathizers?