Ubuntu Desktop/GUI Apps on WSL | Updated Guide

You can now use Desktop GUI apps on Ubuntu WSL -- Without Remote Desktop, VNC or another system. Natively run Linux apps under WSL and interact with GUI windows as you would almost any other Windows program. They even appear in the Start Menu!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Explanation
0:35 - Guide from Ubuntu we're looking at
0:57 - Install WSL
1:57 - Install Ubuntu on WSL
3:05 - Set up Ubuntu WSL
3:15 - Update Ubuntu
3:35 - Fix DNS issues
4:44 - Enable systemd in Ubuntu WSL
5:44 - Install X11 apps to test Ubuntu WSL Desktop Apps
6:40 - Ubuntu WSL apps on Windows Desktop
6:55 - Testing Octave for advanced GUI

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Everything in this video is my personal opinion and experience and should not be considered professional advice. Always do your own research and ensure what you're doing is safe.

[Magnus_Loov]

Great! Finally getting it working after a couple of hours of frustration with all kinds of errors.

[personalPickle]

such great videos troublechute well done!

[heruilin]

This video is a godsend. I chose 22.04 and it already had systemd enabled in /etc/conf. I ignored the octave section and installed firefox which ran without issue.

[vladislavkaras]

Quick and informative!
Thanks for the video!

[damonegrate]

This video helped me finally enable GUI access in my Ubuntu distro with WSL2 after 2 hours of research and "TroubleChuting!". Thanks so much. (Now, if I can only enable my microphone and speaker.) 😐

[BattousaiHBr]

where's the guide about CUDA in WSL supposedly in the description?

[gabrielpb]

Awesome, thank you very much by sharing this really valuable content!!!

[CnfusiN]

You need to work at a radio station, with that nice clear voice 📻 🎤

Anyway! Thanks for the video! Just what I needed!

Clean and simple😎

[negimox]

men atleast show how u managed to resolve the problem when u "wsl --shutdown" and the resolv.conf changed. Because i'm unable to edit it the error is "cat: resolv.conf: No such file or directory" but it exists.

[idsoftware]

how to add Ubuntu... to the + of the console... I see other options but not Ubuntu... Azure Could Shell etc etc

i will love to see how to install & setup arch linux with KDE desktop envirment !

[SachinBharadwajManjunath]

Thanks for the video.
emacs text editor gui is not opening ... how to open text file son emacs gui?

[labreynth]

Finally got the xeyes to work, geez. Having this stuff pre-integrated really was better

[BLACKWOLF]

Hi mate can u make video how fixing usable ram i try many things but not working

[NiniXtream]

nice video

quick side note: if you have problems with showing it on your display you need to set guiApplications=true in your wsl.conf file

[VeeruN]

Hi, I am not able to open both xeyes and xcalc simultaneously. What may be the issue?? Please help

[gabrielosvair]

How do I access gparted, in wsl with gui?

[wiet]

(copied comment just so you can see it maybe)
great man its realy helpful thank you so much, it would be very nice of you if you do a rust optimization guid

[birdflax]

Holy smokes. This is can run Linux GUIs in Windows. WOW.

[lvoidx]

"Ah I see this resolve config reset itself" proceeds to write at 500 wpm in 2 frames