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WSL2 now available on Windows Server 2022

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Pierre_Roman
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May 31, 2022
Hello folks!   If you’re one of those Devs/ITPros using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) you know how useful and powerful it can be.  We announced during Microsoft Build last week that WSL2 ...
Updated Nov 09, 2023
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Pierre Roman
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CarlesCarles
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Aug 03, 2022

Thanks for writing this up!

Could you confirm (because I'm having some problems) that graphical applications such as "gedit" work on the WSL2 on Windows 2022?

Just doing:

apt install gedit
gedit

There should be either an error message (that I get) or the application running.

I'd be happy to know if I'm trying the impossible or it's supposed to work 🙂

Thank you!