WSL is currently only available via the console, but WSL2 will let developers run Linux GUI applications on Windows without a third-party X server. WSL2 will ship with the soon-to-be-released ...

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.

Linux GUI support arrives with the Windows Insider Build 21364. For more information, you can read Microsoft’s blog post here. Via The Verge ...

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.” ...

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.

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 ...

At Build 2020, Microsoft released Windows Terminal 1.0 and announced WSL 2 is getting support for GPUs, Linux GUI apps, and a simplified install experience.

Microsoft released a preview of Linux GUI apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in April 2021. This capability is meant to allow developers to run their preferred Linux tools, utilities ...

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.

Microsoft teased the ability to quickly start a Linux GUI app from the command line and it would run and behave like a normal Windows app, complete with a taskbar entry of its own. Apps can even ...