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But can you get this to run in Linux? From the article I can see it's a VSCode extension or something like that but the name kind of implies it's Windows only.

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The link takes me to marketplace.visualstudio.com which makes it seem like a Visual Studio extension, not a VSCode extension? Not sure, it's as confusing as the live/hotmail/outlook/authentication parts of Microsoft tends to be.

Besides, it says the following:

> Windows AI Studio will run only on NVIDIA GPUs for the preview, so please make sure to check your device spec. WSL Ubuntu distro 18.4 or greater should be installed and is set to default prior to using Windows AI Studio.

So seems it'll only run in Linux, as it's a requirement to have Ubuntu WSL running beforehand.

> So seems it'll only run in Linux, as it's a requirement to have Ubuntu WSL running beforehand.

Yes, it'll only run in Linux, but only when that Linux is also running inside Windows.

> https://github.com/microsoft/windows-ai-studio/blob/main/QA....

For now, but seems to be planned in the future.

Yep, didn't read that. In the meantime, kudos to Canonical (and other parties) who helped Microsoft with WSL. Now they can also use Linux to produce Windows-only software! :D

The effort always stops when the commercial goal is achieved.

I don't know, once upon a time I would have agreed with you, but recently I'm optimistic that MS is genuinely trying to break out of that behavior. Time will tell.

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