WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2) Incoming, GPU compute support in 2H 2020

[Deleted member 50521]

This is a fairly big news for folks who have to rely on software suite from both Windows and Linux. Now if WSL2 finally implement good GPU compute support, it will attract quite a lot of developers and researchers in switching to Windows platform.

Microsoft To Support GPU Acceleration, Linux GUI Apps On WSL2 - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

Could it be? Really? The Year of Linux on the Desktop is almost here, and it's... Windows-shaped?

Windows Subsystem for Linux to gain out-of-the-box support for GUI apps, GPU chippery

www.theregister.co.uk

Also windows developer blog

DirectX ❤ Linux - DirectX Developer Blog

DirectX 12, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL and OpenCL acceleration are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

devblogs.microsoft.com

You can see it in action

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[Easy Rhino]

I would really like them to bake in a GUI, not just a terminal. I could avoid having to setup hyperv or vmware if i could easily fire up a WSL GUI.

 

[Deleted member 50521]

I would really like them to bake in a GUI, not just a terminal. I could avoid having to setup hyperv or vmware if i could easily fire up a WSL GUI.

Looks like there will be GUI support for Linux app as well