Jeena@piefed.jeena.net to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWSL userspiefed.jeena.netimagemessage-square55linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down11
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minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month agoLet me clearify, you cant run full desktop environments on it. You cant even run a window manager like Sway on it.
minus-squarenotthebees@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoYou can but it’s a very cursed way to do it. You need to run an X server on windows and set up x11 forwarding. I remember trying it ages ago and it sort of worked. I ended up giving up on it as I ended up just using a live boot. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61110603/how-to-set-up-working-x11-forwarding-on-wsl2
minus-squarekittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 month agoThat seems like its not stable and the software is likely to either be undermaintained or unmaintained
Let me clearify, you cant run full desktop environments on it. You cant even run a window manager like Sway on it.
You can but it’s a very cursed way to do it. You need to run an X server on windows and set up x11 forwarding. I remember trying it ages ago and it sort of worked. I ended up giving up on it as I ended up just using a live boot.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61110603/how-to-set-up-working-x11-forwarding-on-wsl2
That seems like its not stable and the software is likely to either be undermaintained or unmaintained