X410 vs. WSLg

	X410	WSLg
Server Protocol	X-Window System (also known as X11)	Wayland (also includes a compatibility layer for running X11 client programs)
Running OS	Windows	Linux Each WSL2 distro has a separate Linux virtual machine for running WSLg
Architecture Overview		WSLg Architecture Overview
Requires running RDP client	No	Yes
Automatically creating Linux GUI app shortcuts	No Can be manually created via Windows batch files	Yes
High-DPI Display	Yes Running X410 on HiDPI Screens	Yes You may need to manually configure WSLg.
GPU accelerated OpenGL	Yes	Yes
Running full Linux GUI desktop environments	Yes Running Ubuntu Desktop in WSL2	No
X11 forwarding over SSH to Windows	Any SSH client regardless of where it's running; Windows, WSL2, Hyper-V virtual machines or etc.	Only SSH clients running in WSL2
Can be shared among WSL distros?	Yes	No
Can be used with other virtual machines (ex. Docker Desktop for Windows)?	Yes	No
Can be restarted without completely shutting down WSL?	Yes	No Workaround available