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Question for the author: in terms of running X apps, what's the advantage of this over using a third-party x server, like VcXSrv?

Using VcXSrv and just two tweaks (setting DISPLAY to :0 and setting dbus to not use UNIX sockets), I've gotten gnome-terminal, gvim, and Plank dock working perfectly. Firefox, Nautilus file explorer, and various Gnome programs seem to work fine too.

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Most probably to employ a third-party X server is more robust at the moment.

However in this case we can achieve the same effect with the Ubuntu bits of the X server. It's true that here we require other tweaks but this is a bigger step towards letting Ubuntu on Windows on its own to run X apps.

LoWe provides a generic approach and idea that can be applied in a specific way to other functionalities. Eg. it's possible to play music (PCM) by "emulating" some ALSA devices.

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