WSL-DistroLauncher
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| WSL-DistroLauncher | winapps | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 292 | |
| 1,639 | 7,897 | |
| 1.3% | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 12 months ago | |
| C++ | Shell | |
| MIT License | - |
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WSL-DistroLauncher
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MX developers
Any chance we can get something that can be used with WSL 2? Personally, I prefer to use MX on everything I can. WSL-DistroLauncher/README.md at master · microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher · GitHub
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Gentoo on WSL? Sure!
if you want to fancy it up with icons/title like the store distros, its not too bad to tweak the reference launcher, and feed it a stage 3 ( recompressed to .tar.gz since last time I checked last year, it didn't support .tar.xz)
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Any self-hosting C++ Windows devs out there?
There isn’t a lot of guess work to pull this off Microsoft has documented the process here: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher
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Why would someone use Windows Subsystem for Linux?
You can technically run any arbitrary distribution as WSL2, it's just not as simple as installing from an ISO. https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL-DistroLauncher
winapps
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What are some of your favorite Linux apps that you use
This one might be controversial, but Winapps for Linux, app that lets run apps from within a Windows KVM as if it were native on your Linux system (https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps)
- Idk what to do 😭
- How viable is it to use a Windows Virtual Machine in Linux?
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Does Visual Studio 2022 exist on Arch Linux?
Yes but you have to run visual studios in a windows virtual machine qemu/kvm/virtmanager Then pass virtual studio window to your desktop so it runs like it is native https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps optional Then use winapps to make a desktop and application launcher menu entry/icon
- STOP USING WINE. DARE
- Should I switch to Linux as a guitarist?
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Working/Switching seamlessly between Linux and Windows - Ideas?
There's something called winapps which works over RDP, but you better have good specs so you get good performance. I recommend using parsec with a VM if you can passthrough a seperate GPU otherwise. https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps
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Running Windows VM in virtualized OpenSUSE = black screen
The aim of this exercise was to test run WinApps (https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps).
- Want to use Linux, but forced to use Office 365. Any workarounds?
- Any news from the past 6 months?
What are some alternatives?
windows-fido-bridge - An OpenSSH SK middleware that allows you to use a FIDO/U2F security key (e.g. a YubiKey) to SSH into a remote server from WSL or Cygwin.
wine
ArchWSL - ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.
cassowary - Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native, Use linux applications to launch files files located in windows vm without needing to install applications on vm. With easy to use configuration GUI
LxRunOffline - A full-featured utility for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
Console - The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! [Moved to: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal]
Awesome-Linux-Software - 🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares
selfhosted-gateway - Self-hosted Docker native tunneling to localhost. Expose local docker containers to the public Internet with a docker compose interface.
lutris - Lutris desktop client
Windows Terminal - The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.