At last year’s build conference, Microsoft Promise to add support for the Linux GUI app Windows Subsystem (WSL) for Linux. Well, at today’s Build 2021 conference, the Redmond Giants have finally realized this dream. Support for GUI-based Linux apps in Windows 10 is officially available to all developers. It was first launched in the preview early last month.
“We’ve added support for Linux GUI apps in WSL, which makes it possible to run your favorite Linux editors, tools, utilities, and applications. [on Windows 10]. This will greatly improve your ability to create, test, debug and run Linux applications. “ Microsoft said an Official blog post.
If you’re interested in testing how well Linux apps work on your Windows PC. We already have a detailed guide on how to enable GUI support, and Run Linux GUI apps on your Windows 10 PC. Go ahead and check out the linked article to use Linux apps. Without having to set up an X server every time.
Also, Microsoft is now making it possible for developers to run as well “Linux AI and Machine Learning Scenario within WSL.” This means that data scientists can now use the graphical processing unit (GPU) of your Windows 10 PC to follow their AI and ML models.
“WSL NVIDIA supports all major CUDA-based tools for ML acceleration in GPUs, including CUDA backend. Implementation structures such as Tensor Flow and Pi-Torch.” According to the official blog post. So yes, Redmond has started its Build 2021 conference by adding two amazing features. For the Windows subsystem for giant Linux.