Linux

How to run Linux GUI applications on Windows 11

It's been a while since my last post about running Linux GUI applications on Windows 10. Meanwhile, Microsoft proposed its roadmap to bring GUI applications to the Windows Subsystem for Linux and now a preview is available. This project aims to enable support for running Linux GUI applications on Windows in a fully integrated desktop experience.

Michael Koch2021-08-23T16:19:43-04:00August 18, 2021|Linux, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux|

A VSCode extension to paste different clipboard formats

Today a short blog post about a Visual Studio Code extension I created a week ago. VSCode, as you might know, is a very popular code editor created and maintained by Microsoft and available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This extension implements a Paste Special function to paste clipboard content in different available formats.

Michael Koch2020-04-17T17:49:50-04:00December 3, 2019|Editor, Linux, Programming, Visual Studio Code, Windows|

Creating a Docker image from a WSL instance

At some point, it may be necessary to publish the current state of a Windows Subsystem for Linux distribution to a wider audience. A WSL instance can be exported into a tar file, a Docker image can be created by importing a tar file. Then the image could be publicly made available to any host system running Docker. Let's see if it's that easy.

Michael Koch2020-04-17T17:49:51-04:00October 5, 2019|Docker, Linux, Windows, Windows Subsystem for Linux|

Running Linux GUI applications on Windows 10

Since the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update from 2017, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a fully supported Windows feature. In case you don't already know about that feature: WSL is a compatibility layer which allows running 64 bit Linux binary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 in a console window. It uses much fewer resources than a fully virtualized machine.

Michael Koch2020-04-17T17:49:51-04:00March 11, 2019|Linux, Virtualization, Windows|