- Open Powershell as Administrator and run:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux - Open the Microsoft Store, search for Ubuntu, and install
- Launch Ubuntu and create your Linux user
- Open a shell into WSL (I like cmder so far: http://cmder.net/)
- In Windows, download and install MobaXterm (free version): https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html
- Make sure X server is running
- You’ll always need to run MobaXterm, and in the top right corner of the app there’s an "X server" button. Make sure it’s running.
- In mobaxterm settings -> x11 -> set OpenGL Acceleration to: Hardware
- WSL won't have a display environment variable set by default, so tell it manually to connect to the first display:
export DISPLAY=:0.0 - Test an x11 app:
sudo apt-get install x11-apps
