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You can update to Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI while still using Windows 10, as described at https://github.com/microsoft/wslg . Emacs and gnuplot work fine, and that's all I need.

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Sadly, is seems you can't get on Dev or Beta channel since June 24th (if you weren't enrolled before), so you won't be able to get the Insider build with WSLg on your existing win10. Only if you install it from clean ISO and update. Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/how-in...

I tried it now and you could only choose Release Preview channel which still has only build 19044.

Yep - seems like they originally did all the work to have it running in win 10, and then decided to take it away as a carrot to get people to upgrade to win 11.

I'm probably going to make 10 the last version of Windows I install.

You can also get this great feature in standalone version, for free, and without any Linux compatibility or Windows integration issues. Definitively recommend checking at ubuntu.com for it ;-)

How do I use that to run windows games?

With Steam and/or Proton https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

For those who haven't tried gaming on Linux for a couple of years - things have gotten a lot better. Most games basically run flawlessly, with the notable exceptions mostly being multiplayer games with incompatible anti cheat solutions (and even that's recently gotten a lot better - EAC officially supports Linux now).

You run just native Linux games, and the times they aren't available, you run them using the Proton compatibility layer (built right into Steam). There is also Lutris for Windows games not available on Steam.

Yeah, I love Tux Racer.

Link should have been to Arch Linux. 3/10

The article says Windows 10 but on insider preview you only get option to upgrade to Windows 11. Updating Windows 10 alone isn't an option anymore. See https://superuser.com/questions/1676383/how-to-skip-update-t...

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