How to Install WSL2 & Ubuntu Linux GUI (XFCE Desktop) on Windows 10

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We go through How to Install WSL2 & Ubuntu Linux GUI (XFCE Desktop) on Windows 10. We first install WSL2 and make sure we have the latest update of Windows 10 before installing the container for Ubuntu Linux 20.04 and then we follow it up with installing a GUI (XFCE DE) for Ubuntu Linux 20.04. This then helps us use a GUI / Desktop with WSL2 & Ubuntu Linux 20.04

We'll use vcxsrv to connect to our desktop environment that we end up installing on Ubuntu using WSL2 and Windows 10. If you've every wanted to try Linux on Windows today we'll go through how. This is a system to use Linux designed by Microsoft and helps you leverage a subsystem of Windows in order to run Linux on your computer. This is a fairly new feature at least the second update (WSL2) and helps give better support for your Linux container.

IF you run into any issues trying to restart your xfce server running on Ubuntu use the following command: export DISPLAY=$(cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print $2}'):0

There's a known bug that prevents you from running "startxfce4" over and over again because it seems like there's a locked file in the background.

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Useful Links/Commands:
Discord Link - https://discord.gg/zZD5q92
Ubuntu Container - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/ubuntu-2004-lts/9n6svws3rx71?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab
VcXsrv - https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
WSL2 Win Kernel - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-kernel

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