For anyone who is tempted to "look", be aware that although Microsoft hasn't encouraged it, it has been possible for years to run X apps and even audio apps (using pulseaudio) in WSL. This new "WSLg" might provide nice out-of-the-box support, but it only works with WSL-2, which still has some major downsides compared to WSL-1, so depending on what you want to do, you might be better off with an old WSL-1 system. 1. WSL2 is touted as having better performance, but this relates to doing things inside the Linux system. It is apparently much slower for accessing files in the windows system, so that is officially discouraged 2. It grows to take up all your disk space: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4699
Regards, Alister > Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 12:08:33 +0100 > From: Tim Sutton <t...@kartoza.com> > To: Gandalf the Gray <pjduplooy....@gmail.com> > Cc: qgis-dev <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> > Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] WSLg > Message-ID: > < > caes-dzr7gmzmtop-d+okzt2t52veclgx_lb358jksh3m2n3...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Nice! And to balance out the universe, you can also run the windows build > under wine ( > https://gist.github.com/timlinux/8f5e76f3f5d7c10042356e0aa1da7676). > > Regards > > Tim > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 8:50 AM Gandalf the Gray <pjduplooy....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > MS has rolled out WSLg (https://github.com/microsoft/wslg) which > > includes support for Wayland and X11). > > > > There are even drivers from Nvidia, Intel and AMD that works with this. > > > > I have tried some graphics applications Iincluding QGIS, and I am really > > surprised. > > > > Really worth a look.... >
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