Graphical Linux apps are coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux
Assuming you've already got your system running Insider, Dev channel, and build 21364, all you need to do is wsl --install (or wsl --update, if you've already installed it). [credit: Jim Salter ]
This week, Microsoft launched support for graphical and audio Linux apps under the Windows Subsystem for Linux-although the new feature is only available in the Dev channel of Insider builds, for now. The new feature is nicknamed WSLg, and it includes both X and PulseAudio servers. We gave WSLg some limited testing today, and it performed rather well.
After running apt install firefox in the WSL2/Ubuntu terminal, we ran an Ubuntu-flavored web browser and played several videos on YouTube. We don't necessarily recommend you base your next HTPC on WSLg-but the videos were watchable, with decent frame rate and non-skipping audio. (We tested WSLg with a Ryzen 5 Pro 2500U-powered Minisforum UM250 Mini-PC.)
More importantly, virt-manager worked very well on the little Minisforum-in very short order, we set up a "virt-ception" by using virt-manager beneath WSL2/Ubuntu running on Windows 10 to access a Windows VM running under Ubuntu on a machine across the office. (You can also see a Hackintosh VM in the background.)
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