You can open GUI programs inside Windows using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows using Xming
>Download Xming
sourceforge.net
>Grab a program using apt-get
>run export DISPLAY=:0
>run your program
Xming will open your program!
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Michael Powell
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Joshua Stewart
You could already do this through SSH with PuTTY+XMinge. This isn't surprising.
Joshua Brooks
>x on Windows
Levi Green
I made this in like 2012. Glad I can finally use bash without the hassle of cygwin.
Connor Cooper
>x on anything
desu
Fuck X server.
Evan Baker
Whats the point of that when virtually all linux software is also available on windows?
Bentley Long
>xming
>2007-11-02
Deprecated. Use VcXsrv
Daniel Rogers
It was updated this week.
Matthew Collins
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Closed source paid version which is not available for public download
Evan Martinez
>using windows 10
Jeremiah Wood
It sucks, I was hoping it'd be decent, but locking/file permissions are inconsistent.
It's better to setup a virtual machine, then setup samba and just ssh into the virtual box.
This is what I've found to be the best for development on Windows.
John Bell
Or you could just use cygwin or a real distro
Jose Reyes
>open source version is from 2007
William Turner
Yep it works
John Smith
it needs to support more colors
Isaac Peterson
>bash on windows
I guess thats neat kinda like having a boat on a river of shit instead of swimming in the river of shit. But at the end of the day you are still on a river of shit and it stinks
Jeremiah Mitchell
>being this butthurt that the year of the linux desktop is on windows
Parker Cruz
>root
Kayden Gray
/etc/ files are owned by root, same as on my linux server
is that a problem for you?
Dylan Carter
top
Sebastian Morales
>installing windows 10
Yeah im totally butthurt
Logan Taylor
W10 is pretty good though
Anthony Brown
wait I got a better analogy
Its like having shoes when you are walking down a designated shitting street but at the end of the day you are still in India.
Brandon Bailey
I switched recently from Arch to W10 because of it.
It's so good.
Jayden Gutierrez
>Arch
well there's your problem.
John Parker
Great, now you can rm -rf %windir% before you install gentoo
Henry Cruz
bazinga!