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clj-on-windows 2020-08-22
seancorfield 2020-08-22T05:22:59.003200Z
I just discovered that you can easily get an X11 server up and running on Windows 10 and usable from WSL 1 (which I'm stuck on, for reasons). And you can run #rebl on WSL1 and see the UI on Windows via the VcXsrv (free open source) X server, and run a socket REPL, and connect to that from Windows (I'm using Atom/Chlorine, which knows how to translate from Windows filesystem paths to WSL-`/mnt/<drive>` paths so load-file etc works transparently).
borkdude 2020-08-22T06:17:56.004300Z
@seancorfield They backported WSL2 to older versions of Windows just this week
seancorfield 2020-08-22T06:21:54.004400Z
I wonder if that means losing your WSL1 files and having to reinstall everything?
borkdude 2020-08-22T06:48:20.004800Z
I don’t think so
borkdude 2020-08-22T06:49:01.005900Z
In WSL2 you can even have multiple instances of the same distribution
borkdude 2020-08-22T06:49:31.006700Z
And you can still run WSL 1 instances alongside of it
borkdude 2020-08-22T06:50:18.007300Z
You can see them with wsl —list
borkdude 2020-08-22T06:52:04.008Z
Also you can export and import instances as backups