X410 |
WSLg |
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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
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Architecture Overview | ||
Requires running RDP client | No | Yes |
Automatically creating Linux GUI app shortcuts | No | Yes |
High-DPI Display | Yes | Yes |
GPU accelerated OpenGL | Yes | Yes |
Running full Linux GUI desktop environments | Yes | 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 |