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WSL2 can run Linux GUI apps out of the box???? with hardware acceleration??????
holy shit it's so hard for me to actually hate this OS as much as I want to
‪oh. wsl is still a horrible chimæra. sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop will hose it and i don't know if i have the skillset to recover a linux system broken in this particular special way.‬
‪i'm really surprised they didn't do some package management stuff to prevent you installing packages that'll automatically break the system‬
@hikari the apt history (I think it's at /var/log/apt/history.log) might help you undo what you just did
@hikari Not to detract from whatever strides WSL2 has made but I've run WSL with hardware acceleration (albeit only for opengl) as a daily driver at $workplace for at least 6 years at this point (and have used the opengl to test a few hobby projects outside work hours)
It's not out of the box, granted, but barely requires any setup: any WSL1 + cygwin's X11 client Just Works
Literally only config needed is exporting DISPLAY in WSL and telling cygwin/X11 to "-listen TCP"
Like, this is so stable and functional I just use Linux terminal emulators like lxterminal under windows at both work and home with this setup and for $workplace only really run MS Teams and Firefox as native Windows
(The only real gripe I have is sound: the only way to get audio on WSL1 is using an ancient windows port of pulseaudio and some messing around for awful performance and a lot of rough edges, so I never bother with it)