I suspect it'd be easier to set up a more robust DOOM Emacs inside WSL than native Windows (which the DOOM docs advise is somewhat unadvised), and the GUI version fo Emacs provides some features the CLI version doesn't have.

Wine, so you can run old Windows apps on Windows 10.

All that I can install in wsl instead. Firefox, alacritty, etc.

I'd rather use Linux versions even if there is a Windows version just for sane package management.

> What has a Linux GUI but no Windows app or alternative?

I don't know about alternatives (it seems Cubase is a proprietary one), but Rosegarden [1] is a GNU/Linux "audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool" that does not seem to have a Windows build (a maintained one anyway). It's a great app, I guess it could convince a musician to use Linux for some music-related activities.

I don't know if it runs (well) in WSL (1 or 2).

Rosegarden aside, I'm not sure there is a single app I use regularly that absolutely can't run on Windows (some can run on Windows (and Mac), but probably run way better on GNU/Linux, like the Kate editor, and Clementine seems to have a spotty Windows support too).

[1] https://rosegardenmusic.com/

its mostly for people doing work in the WSL world. If you're writing code, you can throw up an IDE running directly inside WSL and run toolchains that exist inside WSL altogether. Before, you'd have to do something like use WSL remote or open the project in a Windows program and edit the Linux file, then use the Windows version runtime of whatever langauge youre using to use any of the built in IDE features for that language.

in my case i couple of app that have windows equivalent, but i also install them inside linux for better io performance.

The main one is sublime merge since, while i can access my wsl repository form windows, doing so is very slow. instead i have smerge on both windows and linux to access the respective filesystem.

I admin it is a bit confusing at times...

I want to run a git GUI occasionally for my codebase that's in WSL2.

My first reaction would be custom terminal applications (i.e. Terminator)

GNOME Mines. Windows minesweeper has ads in-game now

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