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I don't fully understand what this is capable of. Can I use this to run a window manager like xmonad? If so, does it work only for linux gui apps run through WSL or also for windows programs?

I really love what WSL has been doing so far and this would really take it to the next level. I'd actually consider switching my private computer to Windows.

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Haven't been using this specifically but it looks similar enough to vcxsrv.

To me the big selling points of both this and vcxsrv is using seamless windows so that the windows are just like any other windows-window and not like VNC or something where you get two desktops - one for local and one for remote.

In vcxsrv, and it seems this one as well, can also run a window manager. I tried i3 that way, but it is quite clunky and the shortcuts collided with windows native shortcuts in a bad way. Maybe there are fixes for that. But it will would still only be for linux apps and not windows apps.

It runs X on Windows. This was doable before as well. Unless you can make Windows render windows on the X server, no, you can't use your Linux window manager for Windows programs.

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