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The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 19 hours agoNot like you can fork it to run on a different OS.
For WSL1? yep that’s effectively impossible.
WSL2 is effectively just a wrapper around the kernel virtualization support and a bundling format, as long as whatever image you run talks to the host properly (like any other virtualised OS would) it’d run.
TerHu@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
does that mean we could build a wsl that provides the flatpak environment, so that we could get a one click install flatpak for windows?
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
Should be possible, as it’s a normal VM you can already install flatpak apps in said VM as normal, you’d just need a Windows side bit to invoke the install within WSL when you opened the flatpak bundle, and then something to add a start menu shortcut from the app inside the VM (Which I actually assume already exists, I never actually ran WSL2 when I was on Windows)
ramble81@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
WSL2 now supports WSLg which allows you to run X11 (or other graphics packages) natively now.