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With WSL1 way back, I ran GUI apps using a Win32 X server. I had some Linux GUI tools that I needed to be able to run and it was pretty seamless.

I actually still use WSL1 and vcxsrv to do that when I use Windows.

It is seamless, even the icons that show up in the Windows taskbar are correct.

If this new WSL2 experience works just as well, I might finally switch :)

I was somewhat surprised that WSL1 could run the valgrind memory checks at least well enough to match results of basic tests on a real Linux machine.