Linux Graphical Apps Integrated into WSL

Microsoft has made it possible to run graphical Linux applications within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

As Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports, Microsoft has ported a Wayland display server to WSL. Wayland is the most popular X Window compatible server. In WSL2, it connects the graphical Linux applications via a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection to the main Windows display. This means you can run Linux and Windows GUI applications simultaneously on the same desktop screen. 

Read more at ZDNet.

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