DirectX ❤ Linux - DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

shankly1985 · 19 May 2020 at 21:51

big news!

At //build 2020 we announced that GPU hardware acceleration is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2).

What is WSL? WSL is an environment in which users can run their Linux applications from the comfort of their Windows PC. If you are a developer working on containerized workload that will be deployed in the cloud inside of Linux containers, you can develop and test these workloads locally on your Windows PC using the same native Linux tools you are accustomed to. In response to popular demand, these Linux applications and tools can now benefit from GPU acceleration.

The purpose of this blog is to give you a glimpse of how this support is achieved and how the various pieces fit together.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/

JRS · 19 May 2020 at 22:03

Well now. That is interesting. Thanks for the heads-up @shankly1985.

opethdisciple · 19 May 2020 at 22:08

I've also seen that windows is going to be getting it's own native cli package manager.

yum install paint

BongoHunter · 19 May 2020 at 22:08

That's great news! Having a local container with GPU access should make the dev process much nicer

Deleted member 77746 · 19 May 2020 at 22:24

sod that how did you get emotes on ocuk titles? lol

shankly1985 · 19 May 2020 at 22:39

mrbell1984 said:
sod that how did you get emotes on ocuk titles? lol

Just copied the title and it went in I was surprised it worked tbh haa

Deleted member 77746 · 19 May 2020 at 22:41

shankly1985 said:
Just copied the title and it went in I was surprised it worked tbh haa

So copy and paste works with emotes now? really? !!! Will test it next time I make a post.

Armageus · 19 May 2020 at 22:52

mrbell1984 said:
sod that how did you get emotes on ocuk titles? lol

Hmmm what magic is this
Poop emote doesn't seem to work

Deleted member 77746 · 19 May 2020 at 22:54

shankly1985 said:
Just copied the title and it went in I was surprised it worked tbh haa

Copied what title? from where?

Deleted member 77746 · 19 May 2020 at 22:55

EDIT: Nope emote didn't work. hmmm

shankly1985 · 19 May 2020 at 23:00

mrbell1984 said:
Copied what title? from where?

From the link at the top

Deleted member 77746 · 19 May 2020 at 23:02

❤ - Test Message

WTF it copies the red heart but not the other colour hearts I pasted in this post. It must be some character that vBulletin supports nativly even though it's not an emote.

Anyway back to thread I'll work it out in a new one at some point.

shankly1985 · 19 May 2020 at 23:22

mrbell1984 said:
❤ - Test Message

WTF it copies the red heart but not the other colour hearts I pasted in this post. It must be some character that vBulletin supports nativly even though it's not an emote.

Anyway back to thread I'll work it out in a new one at some point.

Its not even red for me in the title like your posted image, mine is white.

Deceptor · 20 May 2020 at 00:11

mrbell1984 said:
sod that how did you get emotes on ocuk titles? lol

Emojis are unicode characters, if your browser/OS has native support then the characters will be displayed as pictures. In Windows 10 you can bring up the emoji menu inside any text input by pressing Win + .

So any website that has UTF-8 support will allow you insert an emoji and it will display.

Deleted member 77746 · 20 May 2020 at 07:27

@Deceptor

Edit, tried using the emoji keyboard in chrome and pasted a character in here.

- This doesn't work. I don't see it after clicking save changes. The only charactor I can get to work is that red heart ❤ or white as some people see it.

Dirk Diggler · 20 May 2020 at 16:11

It's like when you give the toddlers a new Etch-a-sketch for Christmas, and they proceed to stand on the screen, fascinated by the glossy box it came in.

Deleted member 77746 · 20 May 2020 at 16:35

Dirk Diggler said:
It's like when you give the toddlers a new Etch-a-sketch for Christmas, and they proceed to stand on the screen, fascinated by the glossy box it came in.

Nothing like it. I was amused that somebody managed to post an icon when it probably shouldn't have been able too.

mmj_uk · 20 May 2020 at 20:25

Running Linux on top of Windows? isn't Linux's only redeeming feature that it isn't Windows?

Whatever happened to Vulcan btw? when it first came out people were talking like it would make DirectX extinct. Now we're getting excited about running DirectX on Windows whilst VM'ing Linux? lol

shankly1985 · 20 May 2020 at 20:40

mmj_uk said:
Running Linux on top of Windows? isn't Linux's only redeeming feature that it isn't Windows?

Whatever happened to Vulcan btw? when it first came out people were talking like it would make DirectX extinct. Now we're getting excited about running DirectX on Windows whilst VM'ing Linux? lol

Vulkan is going strong Doom being the latest title released for it.
While this isn't something I would run am sure they are loads of people that would make use out of this. While Microsoft is around and making console DirectX will always be around. Vulkan for me is the clear better API it's proven so by the games its been built on performance wise.

They are defo room for both APIs you know why Red Dead 2 had both APIs? Because the engine was ported from both Playstation and Xbox sony favouring Vulkan API because its OS is very much Linux based and Xbox using DirectX.

pete910 · 20 May 2020 at 21:45

opethdisciple said:
I've also seen that windows is going to be getting it's own native cli package manager.

yum install paint

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