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> Install firefox, set up a usable bash+X11 system (IIRC I used colinux and then cygwin)

That's fun. Now you'd use WSL.



Yup, WSL2 on the machine I'm currently sat at, with systemd and xrdp installed so I can RDP across the divide to get my full X11 config* (I am very attached to my fvwm2 setup so WSLg isn't suitable for my personal preferences) - works very nicely.

I did use VMWare Workstation for a bit many years ago and more recently Hyper-V, but since the primary purpose of my X11 setup is ssh-ing to the dev rigs where I do my actual work, WSL2 absolutely wins out these days.

* under WSL1 I used a windows-side VcXsrv instance, but WSL2 being a Hyper-V slice means it has to do X11 over the (internal) network so if I need to restart network related stuff all my clients crashed; using RDP means I just have to reconnect the RDP client




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