WSL lets you run a Linux environment, and up until this point has focused on enabling command line tools utilities and applications. GUI app support now lets you use your favorite Linux GUI applications as well. WSL is used in a wide variety of applications, workloads, and use cases, so ultimately, it’s up to you on what you’d like to use GUI app support for.
Useful for developers who target multiple platforms.
If you are not on the dev channel, I could recommend “MobaXTerm”, which includes an bundles X11 server.
(I am using the free version, I could at least promote them here to give something back).
Or you can always use the Cygwin X11 server, but it requires a bit more hands on maintenance: https://x.cygwin.com/
mobaxterm is the one thing for me that makes Windows usable as a serious workstation without using full on Linux. Also wirks with WSL1, which I seem to be stuck on as WSL2 seems to be horribly broken for me on 1909, which I am also stuck on as something is preventing windows update from installing anything newer!
(Oh, how I hate thee, Windows!)
Yeah, but it’s legacy X11. Microsoft’s solution is a Wayland compositor.
This is a sweet development, very useful, serious performance using the GPU.
I’m sure it will be hated.