Many folks have installed X servers and X410 on their Windows 10 machines and hacked together very nice X Server set ups with WSL over the years. However, that support is now official and coming to Windows very soon. It's already in Windows 10 Insiders Dev and is in builds 21364 or higher. (Run winver to see what version of Windows you have.) If you want to try it out, all you have to do is run "wsl --update" from and command line and you're set. If you have 21364 already but you don't have WSL installed, it's even easier to get started now. (Full details on GitHub as the whole thing is open source as well!)wsl --install -d Ubuntu The best part of all this is that you just install Linux GUI apps in your distro with apt install like you would already, and they'll show up automatically in the Windows Start Menu! Even better, if you have a nice GPU, you can run WSLg on a system with virtual GPU (vGPU) enabled for WSL so you can benefit from hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering. You can find preview driver supporting WSL from each of our partners below. AMD GPU driver for WSL Intel GPU driver for WSL NVIDIA GPU driver for WSL Here's the Dolphin Emulator running on my Surface Book 3 laptop on the NVidia vGPU at ~60 fps. You can even run Chrome, Edge, or Teams under Linux on Windows 10 with WSLg. This is more than just X Server support. The community is moving towards Wayland as a simpler X, but there's also Weston to consider as a great compositor to build on. Weston already had a RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) backend and could use with with FreeRDP. But windows already has Windows Virtual Desktop that uses RDP RAIL (Remote Application Integrated Locally) as well as VAIL (Virtualized Application Integrated Locally) for optimizing transport over VM (local) boundaries vs network ones. There's an amazing blog post on WSLg Architecture here by Steve Pronovost. All this means more than just X apps, WSLg works with OpenGL apps and works amazingly on systems with a GPU that supports WDDMv3.0. The preview drivers linked to above will eventually ship in Windows Update automatically when all this is generally available. Finally, interesting stuff is cooking at Canonical (Ubuntu) with their custom WSL2 specific distro for Ubuntu on Windows! It's in preview for now: The Ubuntu on Windows Community Preview will only be available through this link to the Microsoft store. You will not be able to find the Community Preview just by searching in the Microsoft Store. And finally, here's some answers to some of your "ya but you can do THIS?" questions about running Linux GUI apps on Windows 10. Can you run The Gimp under WSLg? Yes. Do know that things in WSLg look best under round number DPI scaling. I'm at 200 here. It'll look back at 175% or something fractional unless you explicitly turn on WESTON_RDP_DISABLE_FRACTIONAL_HI_DPI_SCALING=true in your /mnt/c/ProgramData/Microsoft/WSL/.wslgconfig. But trust me, stay with round numbers. Can you run Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) to run Windows under WSLg under Linux under Windows? Absolutely. Here I'm running Internet Explorer (after installing Gecko) under Wine under WSL in Ubuntu on Windows. Why not? How fast is it? Here I'm running Windows 3.1 emulated within Javascript using PCJS under WSLg within Edge for Linux on Windows 10. It's very fast. Does PulseAudio work? Totally does. Out of the box. The genius of the architecture is that there's an already setup WSLg System Distro (this means it's more robust and you can't mess up the settings and accidentally break something) that has everything prepped and working. Conclusion If you don't like this or you think this is silly to you, then you likely don't have a problem that this solves for you. For me, this just makes my Windows machine an amazing Linux desktop on top of being a great Windows 10 desktop machine, without the overhead or hassle of a Linux VM. WSLg will let you run other IDEs such as gedit, JetBrains based editors, gvim, etc., to test, build, and debug your Linux applications in a high performance manner. You can also run VS Code on Windows like I do and use VS Code Remote to talk to WSL/Linux. Go read about WSLg and check it out for yourself! Also be sure to check out the work that Pengwin Linux and the folks at Whitewater Foundry are doing as their distro works with WSLg out of the box already! Sponsor: Build your apps where your customers are. Oracle for Startups delivers enterprise cloud with no lock-in so you can go after any customer -- confidently. Learn more.(C) 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

It is rightly said that colors speak louder than words. The visual stimuli very finely guide human beings around them, and it makes a larger impact over them compared to any other aspect. Selecting the perfect color combinations for a website is an integral part of the entire branding process. Usually, people consider it as […] The post Creating the Perfect Color Palette for a Website appeared first on Line25.

Lettering and calligraphy are quickly becoming desired skills in a designer's toolbox. Designers such as Marian Bantjes, Jessica Hische, Sean Wes and Martina Flor, just to name a few, have become not only an inspiration to the rest of us, but also a standard. Their work is not only client-based; they have become their own brand by providing products to their followers as well. Other designers have followed suit, and now it would seem that lettering and calligraphy are everywhere.The post Left-Handed Brush Lettering: How To Get Started appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

My most popular Photoshop video tutorial on the Spoon Graphics YouTube channel is my guide to creating the trendy Double Exposure effect, where two photographs are blended into one image to create a surreal picture. I’ve since noticed that a new style of double exposure photography is becoming pretty popular, where two different coloured images […] The post Video Tutorial: How To Create a Double Color Exposure Effect appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

In 2008, I worked on Boots.com. They wanted a single-page checkout with the trendiest of techniques from that era, including accordions, AJAX and client-side validation. Each step (delivery address, delivery options and credit-card details) had an accordion panel. Each panel was submitted via AJAX. Upon successful submission, the panel collapsed and the next one opened, with a sliding transition. The post Better Form Design: One Thing Per Page (Case Study) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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The talented Angie Makes is back with more goodies for Access All Areas members this week. Previously, Angie kindly donated a pack of 16 watercolour floral patterns back in 2015. Members can now enjoy a brand new collection of pretty hand painted flowers, bouquets and foliage from her Watercolour Flower 3.0 Clip Art pack. It […] The post 48 Hand Painted Watercolor Flowers for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Today we live between reality and virtual technologies, which often merge into one entity. Have you used to spend on the Internet most of your day and sometimes forget how the real world looks like? Material design, created by Google, solved this problem and brought some important features of real objects into your screen. Keeping […] The post 15 Material Design Themes WordPress appeared first on Line25.

In my video tutorial last week I made use of my old pack of light leak overlays. I’ve used those graphics in loads of my own photos over the years, so I took some time to produce a fresh batch in a totally new style. This new pack of Free Light Leak Overlays contains 80 […] The post 80 Free Light Leak Overlays for Creating Vibrant Photo Effects appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

We all know how important debugging is for improving application performance and features. BrowserStack runs one million sessions a day on a highly distributed application stack! Each involves several moving parts, as a client's single session can span multiple components across several geographic regions. Without the right framework and tools, the debugging process can be a nightmare. In our case, we needed a way to collect events happening during different stages of each process in order to get an in-depth understanding of everything taking place during a session.