Hi. Just registered on this site to express my appreciation for your post here. I had much use for it, since it is very well organized and more importantly thorough and complete. The information is 'out there' for sure - but your take on it is the best I found. It takes you through the whole process - from start to finish - and is very clear and pedagogic. Well done!
A couple of notes connected to your excellent tutorial:
First - On my system, when I tried to, I couldn't install xfce as you described (ie 'sudo apt install -y xfce' ). I had to install it specifying version too (as you do in the line below for the -goodies package): 'sudo apt install -y xfce4'.
Second - I kinda felt too restricted by using the (very good I must say) script, so I used it but manually. Especially since I wanted to specify some versions of the sofware installed. Ended up with a new version of the script which is without the very pedagogic messages but with some variables to set at the start - to specify versions desired. Nothing fancy, but if interested, I'd happy to provide it. I still consider it the work of you so I won't distribute it myself.
Third: there is a couple of packages in Windows Store related to Window Manager for WSL, for instance GWSL. I haven't tried any since I found your approach more comfortable and fun - but maybe worth a mention? If it's usable that is.
Again, thanks for the excellent tutorial!
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Hi. Just registered on this site to express my appreciation for your post here. I had much use for it, since it is very well organized and more importantly thorough and complete. The information is 'out there' for sure - but your take on it is the best I found. It takes you through the whole process - from start to finish - and is very clear and pedagogic. Well done!
A couple of notes connected to your excellent tutorial:
First - On my system, when I tried to, I couldn't install xfce as you described (ie 'sudo apt install -y xfce' ). I had to install it specifying version too (as you do in the line below for the -goodies package): 'sudo apt install -y xfce4'.
Second - I kinda felt too restricted by using the (very good I must say) script, so I used it but manually. Especially since I wanted to specify some versions of the sofware installed. Ended up with a new version of the script which is without the very pedagogic messages but with some variables to set at the start - to specify versions desired. Nothing fancy, but if interested, I'd happy to provide it. I still consider it the work of you so I won't distribute it myself.
Third: there is a couple of packages in Windows Store related to Window Manager for WSL, for instance GWSL. I haven't tried any since I found your approach more comfortable and fun - but maybe worth a mention? If it's usable that is.
Again, thanks for the excellent tutorial!