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No. No GUI applications (currently, and no announced future support... and I wouldn't bank on them doing it).

Fortunately X11 is "network transparent" and there's X11 servers for windows. It shouldn't actually be that hard to make this work (though the perf will probably be pretty bad in a naive implementation).

At very worst you could SSH to localhost and X11-forward to the same host -- but you can optimize that.

Nope, XMing works perfectly if you export the display to localhost (the default) and it's really fast, it even has GL support with MESA , with hardware acceleration.

I found apps using xming in a VM to be quite laggy, not fast to the point where I could use them regularly. e.g. SublimeText.

It doesn't. It's outdated and not free. This should be way more known: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/

Wayland might be a cleaner api layer to integrate into the windows display subsystems.

Or we could use X11 right now with one of the several existing X11 display servers that work on Windows :-)

headless, you're still stuck with Windows Explorer as a window manager.

I don't use a particularly fancy WM/DE under Linux but it's the little things such as middle click paste, and window operations such as maximize horizontal/vertical (by using the middle and right mouse buttons) that I miss.

Or you could just use ubuntu...

It amazes me that people will rag on linux because its "hard" and then build these elaborate Rube-Goldberg machines to avoid the most obvious solution.

Are those the same people? I don't think those are the same people.

Ubuntu being has hard nothing to do with why I don't use it as a desktop or laptop environment (but in fact I use for every server I touch if at all possible)

>It amazes me that people will rag on linux because its "hard" and then build these elaborate Rube-Goldberg machines to avoid the most obvious solution.

It amazes that people don't understand that one's usage patterns might be different, so "just use Ubuntu" wouldn't be applicable (e.g. UNIX savvy guy who appreciates the shells and userland, but nevertheless wants to do Windows .NET development, or work with native and proprietary Windows programs the rest of the time).

The "UNIX savvy guy" will just use Windows when he needs to, either in a VM, a Azure windows instance or his company provided laptop and call it a day.

All the yakka spent on avoiding the obvious solutions to justify "usage patterns", should signal any half-aware dev that those precious patterns are broken.

Yes, I will "just use Windows" when all the dev tools for my embedded environment are only available for Windows.

And when I'm stuck on Windows for whatever reason, I'll be immensely grateful to be able to do that with a bash shell and all my normal configuration and tools.

>The "UNIX savvy guy" will just use Windows when he needs to, either in a VM, a Azure windows instance or his company provided laptop and call it a day.

Still missing the fact that he could be needing them 24/7 for his work...

I have been running dual-boot Windows/Linux forever (Minix before Linux took over ;) ). I have purchased programs - Mathematica, Ableton Live, Clip Studio Paint, etc... that I have on Windows along with VS and .NET/F# stuff. This will make my world so much easier, since I only use Linux for the occasional program I don't want to bother compiling on Windows due to dependencies and long make files. Cygwin and MSYS2 have their issues to make this more enticing to me.

Mathematica at least has a Linux version. :-)

no i couldn't, corporate it won't let me. this will be so much better than anything else currently available.

If ubuntu can run, you just need Xming to have all GUI applications.

If GUI applications run X, any X server on ayn architecture which supports the X11 protocol will work.

Check out XMing.

i recently discovered mobaxterm's awesome automatic x server and x forwarding. suddenly i find myself gvim'ing on my (non-prod) servers. i imagine it'll be similarly easy but better.

If they implement dri, alsa and evdev (without subtle implementation bugs), then Windows would be a decent development platform for Linux games and such games could run on both Windows and Linux. If Apple joins the party, it would be write once, run anywhere. :)

not yet, and probably not likely, but if you're interested in running winders on a Linux i have x2go instance for testing and it works quite well. I use an internal gb network though, so your experience will vary.

vim?

Presumably, as it's not a GUI application. Not gvim though.

It's in the list given by author:

apt, ssh, rsync, find, grep, awk, sed, sort, xargs, md5sum, gpg, curl, wget, apache, mysql, python, perl, ruby, php, gcc, tar, vim, emacs, diff, patch...

At least half of these already exist, either as .NET cmdlets, Command Prompt functions, or Windows EXEs.

RDP, Robocopy, Find.exe, Sort-Object, Select-Object, Select-String, Invoke-WebRequest, Invoke-RESTMethod, IIS, .NET, CMD, ASP.NET, and Compare-Object will fill most of those needs.

And Powershell accepts "cat" if "gc" for "Get-Content" is too long. Or "ls" if "dir" or "gci" for "Get-ChildItem" is too long. And each of these is a case-insensitive object you can pipe right into ConvertTo-Html or Send-MailMessage.

Or you can create a UDP socket with .NET right from Powershell, and send your objects that way.

You can already run vim from the msys git distribution

There is also a native Vim, compiled with Visual Studio: http://tuxproject.de/projects/vim

It's already working as shown in the video demo: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488

It works really well in Powershell. I use it on Win8.

https://juliankay.com/development/setting-up-vim-to-work-wit...

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