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    [–] saigot@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    This sort of elitism really hurts adoption

    [–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    How? WSL is absolutely awful for adoption. Theres no GUI, it bearly runs GUI apps, and you have to manually configure it. If my first experience with Linux was WSL I would never touch Linux again.

    [–] notthebees@reddthat.com 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    It has proper gui support now?

    [–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    Let me clearify, you cant run full desktop environments on it. You cant even run a window manager like Sway on it.

    [–] notthebees@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    You can but it's a very cursed way to do it. You need to run an X server on windows and set up x11 forwarding. I remember trying it ages ago and it sort of worked. I ended up giving up on it as I ended up just using a live boot.

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61110603/how-to-set-up-working-x11-forwarding-on-wsl2

    [–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

    The only way it could really do it would be for the Windows shell to get out of the way, which it won't.

    You can with effort have some sort of abomination where you get inflicted with both UI designs at the same time...

    [–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    That seems like its not stable and the software is likely to either be undermaintained or unmaintained

    [–] notthebees@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

    Vcxsrv has been around for ages. It's also more documented now. I tried it right when wsl2 released.

    [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    This pleb thinks we should listen to them. Frankly, this neighborhood is done for!

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    I knew, as soon as they installed that damned GUI, that we'd have Windowers coming around with their "Windows key this and WSL that". I'm going to have to move to BSD at this rate, I hear they have a more permissive license. I was telling my friend Margaret just the other day that I was meaning to move to BSD. That and that I wanted to get a shrubbery, for the garden.

    [–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

    On another side it stops people from switching cause as better it's working less reason to switch