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Zeratas t1_ixt1lr7 wrote

Reply to comment by selvz in Is Linux still vastly preferred for deep learning over Windows? by moekou

You don't, it's essentially access to a Linux 'server' OS that lives in your Windows installation.

You can ssh into it and do almost everything you normally would, except GUIs (QT, KDE, Gnome ...etc)

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drsimonz t1_ixt68rn wrote

Actually you can run GUI applications from WSL by installing a windows version of xserv and doing little config within WSL. Check out this guide if you're interested

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Mooks79 t1_ixud2qj wrote

Even more recently MS have provided their own solution for Windows 10 (provided you’re running a sufficiently updated version) and 11, which supports both X11 and Wayland.

See here albeit this document is slightly out of date because, as of just a few days ago, they now support Windows 10 from 19.044 (21H2) onwards iirc. Edit: as per here.

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princeps_gauss t1_ixva656 wrote

Oh shit - this changes everything.... might need to revisit WSL.

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Zeratas t1_ixw41o5 wrote

TIL thanks! Will have to check it out.

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