GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available

Smells like another piece of their usual Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactics. So sad seeing people being so naive buying everything these tech feudalists say.

Microsoft - if you are reading this, I love this - but if you could throw Ext4 support into Windows, so that I can use Linux-formatted drives natively, that would be truly next-level. I know you can do it through WSL, but that's kind of a hack compared to native support in Windows Explorer.

My problem with WSL is the performance. A real Linux is a lot faster, even a Linux in VirtualBox works a lot better. Maybe only happens to me.

Great to see the video progress. Hoping to see more with sound support soon as well. I’d love to be able to more easily work with libraries like OpenAI Whisper under WSL once issues with soundcards in WSL [1] are addressed.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7327">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7327</a>

For GPU accelerated ML in Win11 (PyTorch w&#x2F; CUDA) - is WSL enough nowadays, or still dual boot to Linux?

Take but never give back, well played Microsoft.<p>So Windows users can run Ubuntu in your little VM and that Ubuntu can utilize DirectX without any issues but not real Linux machines.<p>No, I don&#x27;t think this is laziness but a well planned step. We get it, you don&#x27;t wanna lose your gaming marketshare. After all, you&#x27;re the main player even with a bloated and anti-consumer software like that but know that Linux is inevitable.<p>Maybe not today, but the better software will win. No matter what your opinion is, FOSS is coming.

I wanted to give Windows&#x2F;WSL another try, but unfortunately installing WSL on a clean install of Windows 11 gives a blue screen of death boot loop on my laptop. Seems to be related to this 3 year old bug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4784">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;microsoft&#x2F;WSL&#x2F;issues&#x2F;4784</a>

The folks had it all wrong, it wasn&#x27;t the Year of Desktop Linux, rather the Year of Desktop POSIX, that most people cared about, by investing into Apple hardware.<p>Even if WSL runs Linux kernel, macOS definitely not, and both combined make OEMs selling GNU&#x2F;Linux proper almost irrelevant.

Great. Now I want GPU pass-trough in VM on linux with Nvidia GPU. I mean something that you don&#x27;t need nuclear physics degree to actually understand how to set up.

virgl&#x2F;video will soon be available in Mesa for linux kvm too [1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;Virgl-Encode-H264-H265" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;Virgl-Encode-H264-H265</a>

Remember, WSL is pronounced &quot;weasel&quot;.

I&#x27;d prefer MS to stop pushing DX12 NIH for a change and start using Vulkan.

This entire concept of having directx in WSL sounds like Embrace Extend Extinghish, all over the place. This means we will have some linux programs only running in WSL. This is fucked.<p>&gt; libd3d12.so and libdxcore.so are closed source, pre-compiled user mode binaries that ship as part of Windows. These binaries are compatible with glibc based distros and are automatically mounted under &#x2F;usr&#x2F;lib&#x2F;wsl&#x2F;lib and made visible to the loader.<p>Mesa is a freedesktop project and this is not the freedesktop I was imaginating.

GPU acceleration sounds great, but fixing the slow disk speed across the Linux&#x2F;Windows boundary would be even better.

I want to be able to use IntelliJ from WSL. Can I do that yet?