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I'm not opposed to making a WSL2 image, but Fedora does not create official WSL images currently. There are plans to provide them in Fedora 42: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraWSL. We will have to revisit it when they are available.
I would like to clarify a little bit, that it is not (or not completely) a waste of time. Taking me as an example, in scientific world it is common that the software development is purely linux or linux + macOS, but you have to have windows system for e.g. CAD and other software. People often use WSL2. So you quickly move the most of your development under wsl2 and then you realize that while there is seamless integration between windows and linux file systems - it is slow, have problems with access, things like text files ending in \r\n on linux or FS watchers unable to work properly. So you install software under WSL2 linux and run it there - X integration is great novadays. Pretty quickly you end up win installing full DE under windows and XFCE is a popular choice here. For example I dedicated a desktop for it, switched off windows panel.
That's very interesting. I am a software engineer and am forced to use Windows at work. I do have a minimal WSL2 set up mainly used to multiplex multiple ssh sessions.
I was unaware that there is a use-case for running a full Xfce desktop inside WSL2. I'll have to look into it further but it sounds pretty useful to me.
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ledif commentedon Apr 4, 2025
I'm not opposed to making a WSL2 image, but Fedora does not create official WSL images currently. There are plans to provide them in Fedora 42: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraWSL. We will have to revisit it when they are available.
KoleckOLP commentedon Apr 9, 2025
You can run a desktop environment on top of WLS2?
DraTeots commentedon Apr 9, 2025
Yes. There are a lot of instructions. I run XFCE
DraTeots commentedon Apr 10, 2025
I would like to clarify a little bit, that it is not (or not completely) a waste of time. Taking me as an example, in scientific world it is common that the software development is purely linux or linux + macOS, but you have to have windows system for e.g. CAD and other software. People often use WSL2. So you quickly move the most of your development under wsl2 and then you realize that while there is seamless integration between windows and linux file systems - it is slow, have problems with access, things like text files ending in \r\n on linux or FS watchers unable to work properly. So you install software under WSL2 linux and run it there - X integration is great novadays. Pretty quickly you end up win installing full DE under windows and XFCE is a popular choice here. For example I dedicated a desktop for it, switched off windows panel.
See also (as example)
https://www.kali.org/docs/wsl/win-kex/
ledif commentedon Apr 15, 2025
That's very interesting. I am a software engineer and am forced to use Windows at work. I do have a minimal WSL2 set up mainly used to multiplex multiple ssh sessions.
I was unaware that there is a use-case for running a full Xfce desktop inside WSL2. I'll have to look into it further but it sounds pretty useful to me.