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Boot Windows 10 Directly into Linux Desktop of Choice

Shown by nxc18 on Mar 1, 2017. Click the card to turn it over.

264points

104comments

#92of 2,242 in 2017

Top 5%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

10 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.

Idea: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 against

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Cool, fun experiment
From 3 comments
- This is really awesome!
  zujko on HN
- Looks pretty sweet, nice work!
  blackflame7000 on HN
- This is so awesome. I love the guys notes as well. Right on. Great work dude. Keep it up.
  youdontknowtho on HN
Useful for running tiling window managers on Windows
From 1 comment
- I will surely look into this - it would be very helpful to run a proper tiling window manager like spectrwm/i3/dwm/xmonad under Windows.
  abtinf on HN

Graphics and GPU support is poor under WSL
From 2 comments
- Biggest overstatement. Linux gaming, though becoming more possible, is nowhere near gaming on windows. Forget game availability, even most GPUs are not properly supported on most…
  dingo_bat on HN
- He's sort of running open source desktops on a Windows 10 kernel. But not really, there's an abstraction layer called WSL in between. There are some interesting effects though:…
  killjoywashere on HN
Windows desktop is preferable to Linux desktops
From 2 comments
- I know you're joking, and while it is cool, that's kind of my thought as well. Yes, get the X11-style integration working so it's easier to run linux gui software... but imho the…
  tracker1 on HN
- Biggest overstatement. Linux gaming, though becoming more possible, is nowhere near gaming on windows. Forget game availability, even most GPUs are not properly supported on most…
  dingo_bat on HN
Configurator fails on first run due to missing registry keys
From 1 comment
- Cool but appears to be broken, when starting the configurator for the first time, the registry keys don't exist and it fails silently. Issue here:…
  zaggynl on HN

Reverse direction: run Windows executables inside Linux
From 1 comment
- I just wish you could do it the other way around from WSL. (LSW I guess) Windows executable inside the Linux kernel.
  0xTJ on HN

How well do Linux desktops run on Windows?
From 1 comment
- That looks awesome. How well do Linux DE's run on Windows?
  imafish on HN

Running Linux in VirtualBox seamless mode
From 2 comments
- I was experimenting running stuff like PyCharm, VS Code, Sublime etc. in WSl through X11 Forwarding. Eventually I gave up and just run it properly in VirtualBox with seamless mode.
  chrisper on HN
- I kind of want to have a development environment in Linux. I also like to game, so for that Windows (in non-vm) is better. So that's why I tried to go with WSL in the first…
  chrisper on HN
Xming or VcXsrv with WSL
From 2 comments
- This seems totally pointless, but also quite cool :) Xming/VcXsrv seem to be working pretty well for me and I get to keep my windows desktop.
  Eridrus on HN
- Heh, I'm using VcXsrv + PuTTY + a custom PowerShell script https://github.com/myfreeweb/xvmmgr to quickly launch a terminal forwarded from a FreeBSD VirtualBox VM.
  floatboth on HN
Cygwin
From 1 comment
- > In my mind, Microsoft developed WSL to try to keep developers: if you grew up on Linux but are now employed maintaining Windows servers, WSL gives you a way to get to your…
  Florin_Andrei on HN