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windows on linux or linux on windows...WHO will WIN?

Is there even a doubt? Windows has a chance at supporting the open, documented interfaces of Linux. Linux has no chance at supported the closed, undocumented interfaces of Linux.

> the closed, undocumented interfaces of Linux.

Perhaps you meant "Windows"?

Indeed, thanks for the correction.

Or just Linux with WINE, without Windows.

The end users.

What do actual users who would want to run Linux actually run? Probably games? Maybe office?

I dual boot right now and hop into Windows only for games. Wine is janky so that's not a good solution.

I've been a pretty devoted Linux user for close to 20 years but I'm starting to seriously consider switching to a WSL setup in the future.

You can try a Windows VM with GPU passthrough, there's Looking Glass with transparently sends the VM pixels to a Linux window with native performance.

https://looking-glass.hostfission.com

Thanks, I'll take a look at this!

This is nothing new, I have used X Windows servers on Windows all the way back to 1999, there are quite a few to choose from.

If anything the amount to choose from went down not up, slowly replaced by RDP clients.

So that tells who will will win.

That might change with WSL drastically increasing the demand for such a thing. With enough resources, doing it as an X server is the better approach because it gives more flexibility - top-level windows can be shown directly on the host desktop etc. And with enough demand, there are resources for something like X410...

I've used both Xrdp and X410 for my WSL UI needs, and so far X140 has been a much better experience by far.

Yeah, as if that is anything new versus Cygwin with XWin32 for example.

In terms of sheer number of active users, yeah, I'm fairly sure it is. There's lots and lots of developers who live in the Microsoft bubble, who might have never even heard of Cygwin - but who will hear about WSL from their routine conferences, training etc.

RDP also supports showing only the windows instead of the full desktop session.

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