

But windows already has Windows Virtual Desktop that uses RDP RAIL (Remote Application Integrated Locally) as well as VAIL (Virtualized Application Integrated Locally) for optimizing transport over VM (local) boundaries vs network ones.

Weston already had a RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) backend and could use with with FreeRDP. The community is moving towards Wayland as a simpler X, but there's also Weston to consider as a great compositor to build on. You can even run Chrome, Edge, or Teams under Linux on Windows 10 with WSLg. Here's the Dolphin Emulator running on my Surface Book 3 laptop on the NVidia vGPU at ~60 fps. You can find preview driver supporting WSL from each of our partners below. The best part of all this is that you just install Linux GUI apps in your distro with apt install like you would already, and they'll show up automatically in the Windows Start Menu!Įven better, if you have a nice GPU, you can run WSLg on a system with virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled for WSL so you can benefit from hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.

(Full details on GitHub as the whole thing is open source as well!) wsl -install -d Ubuntu If you have 21364 already but you don't have WSL installed, it's even easier to get started now. If you want to try it out, all you have to do is run "wsl -update" from and command line and you're set. (Run winver to see what version of Windows you have.) It's already in Windows 10 Insiders Dev and is in builds 21364 or higher. However, that support is now official and coming to Windows very soon. Many folks have installed X servers and X410 on their Windows 10 machines and hacked together very nice X Server set ups with WSL over the years.
