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Thus far I have found the native WSL2 graphics integration to be pretty disappointing in comparison to what I used to get with X-server setup. Unfortunately the legacy X implementation doesn’t have the modern API and application developers are tapering their interest in it. Hopefully the groundswell of WSL2 support will improve this in time …

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Same here, but maybe for different reasons.

As an end user, the out of the box experience of getting a blurry window with the wrong content size isn't very useful. And I've never tried to actually configure it properly.

I wonder if it's a decent experience even when configured properly. In that case, why do all the IDEs come with remote development / WSL integrations that involve running the client on the Windows side?

Agreed. No way to really test WebGPU, for instance. You can't really test GPU drivers under Linux or using the native Windows browsers. Lots of incomplete attempts to make this work, none of which are reliable or easy to use.

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