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I don't know why you were downvoted because it's a perfectly reasonable question. The answer is not really, or rather the last time I tried it wasn't easy to get X windows running properly so you were stuck with just terminal based programs but that was a couple of years ago. Now I have switched entirely to Linux I'll have to leave it to others to describe the current state of affairs with WSL and X windows


I haven't used it, but in theory it seems to be fully supported, with screenshots in the help article showing several apps running, and instructions (however short) laid out for various apps like Gedit, GIMP, Chrome, even Nautilus: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-...

It seems to be as easy as installing a driver and then... installing the apps in the distro. That makes it even easier than Wine IMO.

To me, it seemed perfectly reasonable to call it the Windows equivalent to Wine but :shrug:




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