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		pyrophane on Dec 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows Once Windows 10 supports linux GUI apps by default in WSL 2, that will be huge. At that point it should be easy to develop completely in Linux, only on Windows. I've gotten this working with some extra tools, and the experience is pretty good, but it is still a bit too fiddly for me to consider it as a primary solution for everyday development.

kjaftaedi on Dec 25, 2020 [–]

You probably have a solution that works for you, but you could configure vscode to develop against a linux instance in the cloud over ssh.

Then you could test the gui apps with xwindow forwarding over ssh. I use putty/xming for this.

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