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We love Linux...kinda

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Microsoft and Nvidia, stuffing it up for everybody I was quite excited when Microsoft decided to support graphical Linux programs on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, I figured that my laptop was about ready to either be a dual-boot Debian/Windows 10 machine or I was about to ditch Windows altogether. Windows 11 proved somewhat of a reprieve when WSLg was announced, so I duly signed up for the early access Windows program and got WSLg after a short wait. It wasn't worth it. You have been able to display X based Unix programs on Windows for a long time. An excellent product called MobaXterm was something I have been using for a few years, having a headless Linux machine laying around for most of the time. MobaXterm filled the gap in Windows, which was really missing a good SSH client and an easy to manage X server, both of which MobaXterm cover extremely well (even the free version). You might object and yell "Putty" at me, but I always found Putty to be terrible to d...