At Build 2020, Microsoft released Windows Terminal 1.0 and announced WSL 2 is getting support for GPUs, Linux GUI apps, and a simplified install experience.

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A year ago, Microsoft officials announced plans to bring support for Linux GUI apps to Windows 10. A first preview of this feature is part of Dev Channel test build 21364.

WSL is currently only available via the console, but WSL2 will let developers run Linux GUI applications on Windows without a third-party X server.

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Microsoft announced today at the Build 2021 developer conference that support for running Linux GUI apps is now available via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Microsoft is allowing Windows 10 testers to try out Linux GUI apps. Full audio and GPU hardware acceleration is enabled, so Linux GUI apps can run alongside regular Windows ones.