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Using GUI apps in WSL2

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Using GUI apps in WSL2

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- [Instructor] WSL2 on windows 11, allows us to run individual graphical apps through the WSLg software. This is useful if there's a graphical Linux app that we need to use in our workflow and it launches these applications as separate windows, right within the windows desktop. Because we've already updated the WSL2 software, this WSLg tool is already installed. So let's install some software has a graphical interface. One example of this is Firefox a popular web browser. I'll install that here on my Linux system by first running apt update to make sure we have the most recent list of packages. Then I'll run apt, install Firefox. This will take a moment. Once the software is installed, we can launch it in a few ways. One way is to just run the program from within our Linux environment. To do that write Firefox and press Enter, doing this will open the software. And we can use it the same way we would any other…

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