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 ...

Microsoft is allowing Windows 10 testers to try out Linux GUI apps. Full audio and GPU hardware acceleration is enabled, so Linux GUI apps can run alongside regular Windows ones.

Enables the ability to run graphical Linux apps on Windows. Update: Microsoft has since clarified that Linux GUI support for WSL2 is still in preview and not yet generally available.

After bringing Linux command line tools to Windows 10 in 2016 and a full-fledged kernel last year, Microsoft announced today that Windows 10 will soon be able to run Linux GUI apps.

Microsoft has released this week's build of Windows 10 to Insiders in the Dev channel. Build 21364 includes the ability to run GUI Linux apps through WSL, improvements to Task Manager, and more.

We knew GUI app support was coming, but now Microsoft is providing a rough timeline: the company says a preview should be available to Windows Insiders “ within the next couple of months.” ...

Detailed instructions on installing WSLg on Windows 10 computers are available here. Microsoft also provides step-by-step guidance on how to install and launch Linux GUI apps on your PC.

I've run Debian WSL2 images and they work fine for 90% of stuff, but the integration between Windows and Linux isn't perfect and Windows is still the "primary" OS.

It a great little tool. I believe it's called LTOOLS GUI or something. It uses java and crates what looks like windows expolorer but for the linux drive, while in windows.