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				 CptFox15787y@Gregozor2121 The other window is a GUI program started from the WSL's (I assume) Ubuntu. CptFox15787y@Gregozor2121 The other window is a GUI program started from the WSL's (I assume) Ubuntu.
 
 @Shahriar Neat, I must have forgotten to try, but I seem to remember it not being supported yet. Good to know I am gonna have to switch around less :)
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				@CptFox its not from Microsoft. With Xming server on windows you can remote to WSL gui applications
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				@CptFox Ive ran Unity one the first public beta of WSL. It wasnt stable but it sure has been possible since always.
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				What is the performance of that actually?
 I did that too, because i like bash way more for development and wanted nwjs to work from WSL. But then I was really unsure about the performance of all these layers. Are there any reports on this?
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				Maybe i should test wine? Run a winform app inside Wine 🍷 inside Wsl inside windows 🤔
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				@Shahriar go one step further and do the whole thing inside a VM running on macOS
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				I remember trying this before and couldn't get It to work, what did they do different?
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				@seraphimsystems oh no wait I got this to work back in June... What I couldn't get to work was a windows vm within the wsl GUI haha...
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				I used to run a full screen i3 on a separate winblows workspace using vcxsrv and wsl.
 
 Nice experiment. Too many issues tho...
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				@ewpratten have you used it? Can it manage Windows programs (Office for example) as well?
 
 I read a post about it a while ago how he upgrades the Wsl to use xorg and started i3wm but I remained sceptical.
 
 It would be pretty rad not having to dual boot just because I want to play one have every 2 weeks
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