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wsl-distrod
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Suggestion on dual booting vs wsl
That vsock thing can be done with GWSL/VcXsrv too. Check this out: https://github.com/nbdd0121/wsld
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Has anyone tried using the new SSH feature to connect to WSL2?
Those that don't want to pay for it, checkout these two neat open source projects called GWSL & WSLD (for vsock). These days I don't care much about using the Linux GUI stuff on Windows anymore, as Microsoft is winning, but once I have to be more serious about it I'll use them again (or do something else.)
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How to explicitly use Vcxsrv, and not WSLg?
This way WSLg will be disabled but you can still use the X servers (like VcXsrv or the other tools that use it like GWSL) which can use X over TCP or X over vsock (there's WSLD which uses vsock for a more stable & reliable connection).
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Comparison of methods for running GUI applications in WSL
wsld can do the same for regular xserver which to me currently looks like best option.
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Some initial short thoughts on WSLg vs using vcXsrv X server User Experience.
With the Ubuntu 21.04 Community Preview from MS Store (with the ubuntu.Interop.advancedipdetection: true) it's fine but, if that isn't a distro that one would like to use then WSLD helps with that as well. You can see my post here from a while ago for a quick reference too.
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Introducing Windows 11
Sure, but the experience is pretty rough. It only renders at a single given DPI, so it's bad if you have say, a 4K laptop and 1080p external monitor. And since you have to go over TCP unless you use WSL1 (or some hacks that require admin access), it drops all X11 connections if you suspend/resume in WSL2.
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X Server with VPN connected via WSLD: WSL Daemon (formerly x11-over-vsock)
For automatic startup follow the instructions here (setup using Task Scheduler & ~/.profile / ~/.bash_profile / ~/.zlogin).
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Improving Linux Graphics Performance (Hyper-V vs. VirtualBox)
Install vcxsrv and use X11 forwarding from your Guest to Windows via TCP. If you want this to be really lickety-split or if you do work that messes with your network connection, you can use VSOCK via x11-over-vsock. To get sound working, you can probably install Pulseaudio on windows and connect to your Linux guest that way.
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nbdd0121/x11-over-vsock is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of x11-over-vsock is Rust.
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