WSL2 Ubuntu GUI

[@NetworkChuck]

Ooooh yeahhhhh!! Great job David!

[@davidbombal]

Thanks Chuck!

[@MickyFr33]

@@davidbombal F

[@DivergentDroid]

@@redacted671 I don't Hate Ubuntu.. it's just that Zorin is So much Better... LOL

[@comradea8119]

@@davidbombal Sorry to ask. What is the name of the model of this chair? Very informative video by the way. :)

[@DSInteractive]

Chuck, you brought me here! Many thanks for your taster on Linux!

[@janism94]

Thanks a lot David, I learned so much from your videos! Btw - Ctrl + L to clear your terminal, saves you having to type 'clear' all the time :) *Bonus - Ctrl+U to delete everything you've typed if you mess up a command

[@davidbombal]

Good tips :)

[@xrafter]

@@davidbombal Or make an alias for clear like c = clear

[@SundeepRamesh]

Seen other tutorials but was not able to RDP to the WSL. But after following the steps that you have shown, worked the very first time. Thank you.

[@DavidJones-pi8rl]

I struggled all last week on my own trying to figure this stuff out googling each piece and not getting the clear consistent and concise instructions - Why did I forget - check KZbin first!! Works like a charm.... so far. I unfortunately lost my job in late June and I do not cope well with idleness. So with my son's encouragement, I have turned my turned my QNAP NAS into an unRAID Server and I am now trying to set-up NextCloud, but I needed more memory, so I am looking at running NextCloud in Ubuntu in WSL on my Desktop, but getting it configured and being able to access it remotely was very confusing before now. Baptism of fire for someone who grew up with Mainframes and Minis and first programming languages was Fortran and Cobol in the 1970's. However, your series of videos have made my learning path so much simpler. I just wish I discovered them a couple of weeks ago!

[@galousisx]

One of the best videos about this topic. Simple, short, and easy to follow. Well done!

[@TimMayville]

🤣🤦‍♂️ Now install Powershell in the Ubuntu and it's complete..lol

[@davidbombal]

lol... inception here we come!

[@leeh.1900]

I've added the Credge (Chromium based Edge) to my main linux box...don't use it much other than to look at OWA email...but it's fast and stable. I'm all for blurring these "Corporate Lines"....

[@JohnMcCormack]

Without question, this is the best tech how-to video I have seen on KZbin. Comprehensive, yet concise. No waffle. Just clear, well presented instructions. Well done and thank you!

[@Chatsworth1979]

Duuuude, that's awesome, thank you so much. Still, I'll be happy when MS bolts on the "true" Ubuntu GUI later this year. Exciting time for computer programmers!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you. Agreed - it's going to be much better when Microsoft update WSL 2 to support a proper GUI

[@gopalanjayashankar1125]

@@davidbombal Thanks and Great job on the video ! Would you know where can I follow up when MS is releasing a GUI for WSL?

[@HeathBilbrey]

@@davidbombal It's almost April 2021, has this happened yet? Are you going to do a video on it and should I wait before completing this tut?

[@TacticalAllRounder]

@@HeathBilbrey it's 2022 September. No

[@leomerlubo]

Next: Install Chrome OS on a Linux inside Windows that is inside a MacOS.

[@nabeelhasan6593]

One of the most blasphemous things to do in the world of OS, by running windows on a Mac, and then installing Ubuntu on the windows 😂😂😂

[@davidbombal]

lol... but I am not running Windows on my Mac. I am using VNC to remotely control the Windows laptop to my left and I'm installing Linux on the Windows PC. But, I can run Linux within Windows within MacOS if that is of interest :)

[@nabeelhasan6593]

@@davidbombalDon't get me wrong its very informative, just being sarcastic

[@ER_aka_RAM]

Believe it or not, Apple’s hardware has always made Windows OS’ shine in comparison to any PC. Their legacy hardware (e.g. 2013-2016) is still more than sufficient today, especially as a VM host. FYI: Not referring to a gaming platform, but as productive administration and computer workstation, they’re excellent.

[@KevKnows]

😂

[@jeffersoncarvalho82]

What have you brought upon this cursed land!

[@thomaswinther8774]

Excellent videos! Love your setup and way of teaching. Keep up the good work!

[@davidbombal]

Thanks so much for the feedback Thomas, I really appreciate it.

[@sam-ir8wx]

I just wanted to say "thank you", I don't know what I can say more than that. 80 hours of valuable information, in the ccna course.. just for 20$ and with the sale 10$, it's almost free, why is that?.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Sam. Education should be affordable - especially for those in the world that have less.

[@corwaincyrus9759]

@@davidbombal You are a treasure man. May Jesus Christ bless you!

[@jackytank]

this absolutely what I've been searching the internet in a week, very helpful video! Thank you David

[@spicybaguette7706]

Mom, can we have Linux? No, we already have Linux at home. Linux at home:

[@djf1513]

Holy shiet!!! This is so funny 🤣

[@davidgustavsson4000]

I had almost exact this conversation with my sysadmin at work.

[@danieljensen2626]

There are pros and cons to both ways. It is nice to be able to do Linux stuff without rebooting. I mostly just use it because it makes it easy for me to remote into my Linux work computer.

[@michaelcooper5490]

Great Tutorial David, awesome job!......Thank you sir.

[@pionytudr]

Thank you! This was very helpful as opposed to so many other videos online.

[@davidbombal]

Menu: Overview: 0:00 Prerequisites: 1:20 Install WSL: 1:46 Install Ubuntu 20.04: 4:45 Install Ubuntu GUI: 7:25 Test RDP connection to the Ubuntu VM: 10:35 WSL commands: dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart wsl --set-default-version 2 Ubuntu GUI commands: sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade sudo apt-get purge xrdp sudo apt install -y xrdp sudo apt install -y xfce4 sudo apt install -y xfce4-goodies sudo cp /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini.bak sudo sed -i 's/3389/3390/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini sudo sed -i 's/max_bpp=32/#max_bpp=32 max_bpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini sudo sed -i 's/xserverbpp=24/#xserverbpp=24 xserverbpp=128/g' /etc/xrdp/xrdp.ini echo xfce4-session > ~/.xsession sudo nano /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh comment these lines to: #test -x /etc/X11/Xsession && exec /etc/X11/Xsession #exec /bin/sh /etc/X11/Xsession add these lines: # xfce startxfce4 sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start Now in Windows, use Remote Desktop Connection localhost:3390 then login using your Ubuntu username and password Good links: Microsoft GUI announcement: devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-build-2020-summary/ Ubuntu WSL2 GUI Install: dev.to/darksmile92/linux-on-windows-wsl-with-desktop-environment-via-rdp-522g WSL 2 install: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 Docker for WSL2: docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/wsl/ What is WSL? docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about WSL documentation: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/ WSL 2 Announcement: devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/

[@debarghyaroy6870]

Hi could ya please tell what difference in this procedure would be to try out other DEs? Seems like a good way to experiment xD.

[@ronaksuchak]

What about cinnamon DE what will change ?

[@Shadowbane900]

the comment is not pinned

[@mhshakouri]

hey hi, hope this was pinned, as you mentioned its pinned in video, had to sort comments and scroll all the way down here to find it great walkthrough, I tried some vnc stuff, but it seems more stable since its using rdp

[@dimitribolt6006]

Hi, Thanks. Could you make a video about how to install Debian+KDE under WSL2?

[@baronaparts4382]

Thanks David. Worked like a charm. We have come a long way from trying to compile the kernel to get a soundblaster to work with Slackware in the 90's)) I never thought I would see the day that MS would have its own kernel.

[@LeoSolla]

not working for me at remote connect

[@d_sanu]

what happened exactly?

[@gigabyte911]

Same here

[@CaminoDeObsidiana]

@@d_sanu same here, I'm able to connect via remote, I'm able to enter my username and password into the GUI interface and then the GUI screen goes black and shutdown.

[@colincook2780]

Excellent video. Proves the value in giving WSL2 the widest berth possible. How about :- Format *.* to hard drive Download Ubuntu iso Use iso to create Ubuntu live disk on USB with etcher Reboot and install from menu JOB DONE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

[@davidbombal]

How about horses for courses.

[@AshutoshDwivedi-k5m]

This is now not working anymore

[@abdulsamihamedi5584]

Love you david sir you are my favorite teacher in my networking career looking forward to learn more and more from you .

[@davidbombal]

Thank you very much Sameer

[@__Ben777__]

where is the pinned comment?? "Ubuntu GUI commands: See pinned comment as KZbin doesn't allow all the commands."

[@davidbombal]

It's there. But you can use my GitHub instead: github.com/davidbombal/wsl2/blob/main/ubuntu_gui_youtube

[@SumanRajak-gb1yh]

Best Tutorial Ever! Have done more than 3 times using this one

[@cvabds]

where is the pinned comment whit the commands???

[@Праведныймиротворец]

I was looking for it too. I recently formatted my pc 🤦‍♂️

[@davidbombal]

It's there. But you can use my GitHub instead: github.com/davidbombal/wsl2/blob/main/ubuntu_gui_youtube

[@cobrakaineverdies6645]

Brilliant! I couldn't get x-server to work due to black screen and then I found this.

[@cobrakaineverdies6645]

However, it says now that remote desktop can't connect to the remote computer, but shell still works

[@sheaz2000]

Cant explain how much this saved me. You have some of the best videos for these type of tutorials. Thanks a lot!!!!

[@bidhovbizar]

This was an awsome tutorial Thanks David. Please tell me whether you had any problem of blank screen and window closes automaticaly after you sign in to your remote desktop as showed in 11:04 ?

[@GustavoLeig]

I got the same problem, did you find the fix, thanks?

[@vinhkhiemtran4154]

you can use MobaX instead, I have the same problem.

[@startrader8818]

Spent hours trying to get this to work until I found this video. Thanks!

[@AndrewPayne]

very helpful - many thanks David! I look forward to the official Microsoft WSL2 GUI Support solution however in the meantime - this is great :)

[@davidbombal]

Agreed. The official Microsoft solution looks great. Hopefully that will be released soon.

[@upshawsm]

Thanks, Dave!! This is awesome!! I could figure out the RDP process on the first try, but I went back and tried it again and it works great. Thanks again!

[@dorianhidalgo]

Excelent video!! Helps me a lot. I have only two questions, I want to ping to the ubuntu I have a destination host unreachable, How I can connect the Ubuntu with all my network? and If I have the ubuntu in my windows server, how I can connect to the CLI using other computer? Thank you.

[@limoni0523]

I'm ditching dual boot now, I have to use both OS all the time and now that I can use both in 1 it's all I ever wanted for my needs. Thank you for this video.

[@SixOThree]

With wsl2, dual booting seems more silly on a daily basis.

[@kurodesu404]

blank after input user and pass

[@johncao6280]

Thank you Sir, your work saved me 2 hours of searching aimlessly.

[@whitneyhughes2269]

Hello, David! This is awesome, thank you! One problem I'm having...the graphics and text in the Ubuntu 20.4 LTS GUI are REALLY really tiny. Unusually so. I have an Intel 620 graphics card, as well as an Nvidia GeForce 920MX, and I've updated the drivers and played with the settings, but to no avail. Do you happen to know what the problem might be and how I might fix it? Please let me know! Thanks.

[@jthoward]

If you’re reading this comment be advised this video is now out of date. Microsoft has added Wayland support via RDP for windows subsystem for Linux in the windows insider builds, and it will be coming to main stream very soon. Of course the method described in this video does still work, but it is inferior to the Microsoft solution

[@shock1136]

I don't think its working for me. When installing the desktop environment i get an error message when i am about to finish

[@tatemo_labs]

This is my first time trying WSL 2, and glad no issues at all. Thank you very much David.

[@BenderdickCumbersnatch]

When they said lightweight virtual machine I assumed it had like 256 megabytes of RAM but "free -h" says it has 25Gb RAM on my 32Gb machine. Awesome. That means running a GUI and RDP server won't hit any RAM limitations! Thanks for the helpful tip!

[@yamanatoo]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. I've had a problem after setting everything up and using it for a while. It looks like after starting xrdp 50 times, the MaxSession value is reached and no more sessions are being created. I've made a pull request in your repository with the solution.

[@positivepower2879]

Thank you. This was the exact video I was looking for to set up an ubuntu GUI.

[@dakotaxcode348]

When i close localhost and then i write the IP with ID and password, i have black mirror on localhost and ubuntu don't start. How i can fix this error?

[@420247paul]

ip adress changes everytime you reboot vm

[@TallesDiCunto]

I'm having the same problem! Have you been able to solve it?

[@narayanmurthy8978]

I'm also having the same problem did you find any solution for this?

[@dakotaxcode348]

@@narayanmurthy8978 i don't

[@narayanmurthy8978]

@anonymous1234 should we use this before, but closing the remote desktop server or after closing the server?

[@bgable7707]

David, nicely done. Really like the fact the MS has open the *nix in their OS to the rest of us. Great, explanation and demistration. I haven't seen your work for a while, not since my Cisco days. Glad to see your still putting excellent material out there. Thanks!!!

[@nnbi]

I'm jealous of your internet speed 😂 over 200mb/s

[@morigene]

u saw it too

[@TernaryM01]

200 mb/s is 1 byte per 40 seconds, which is absurdly slow... You probably mean 200 MB/s.

[@TernaryM01]

@Vijay Narala I'm not joking. M stands for "mega", while m stands for "mili". Just as B and b differ, so do M and m.

[@steliosioannides7128]

David, thank you so much for these incredibly valuable insights!

[@xpusostomos]

If you could show how to get Gnome working using this method, that would really be something. I tried it but couldn't figure it out.

[@JaskoonerSingh]

I don’t rdp works with gnome. You have to use vnc

[@xpusostomos]

@@JaskoonerSingh VNC sucks for multi monitor but RDP works great, unfortunately not with gnome.

[@soggybaguette8457]

Yall are gettin this and im still here waiting for microsoft to make an update that was supposed to come out in may work on my computer. Im so jealous lol

[@chadmarkley]

This video and the detailed commands in the comments you created are FANTASTIC!! Thank you

[@davidbombal]

You're very welcome Chad!

[@johndon3782]

I would recommend skipping rdp entirely and just pass your display to windows using something like x11

[@AnkitKumar-wq4kc]

Exactly! Having an RDP window defies the very essence of using linux in the first place. A simple x11 forwarding to windows localhost does the job.

[@mrmotofy]

Ok maybe an explanation for those of us with a lower knowledge level. I understand rdp, etc but not passing the display

[@timfoote6919]

@@AnkitKumar-wq4kc Can you tell us how to do this like we are 5 years old?

[@AnkitKumar-wq4kc]

@@timfoote6919 Please follow the comment I passed on to @mrmotofy. That will solve your issue.

[@GodBurstPk]

Thanks for this, wasn't allowed to replace my software due to warrenty issues. this solves my problem :D

[@jaydeepsingh2860]

Thank you so much it's worked and able to install kde plasma just flowed your tutorial and insted of xfce4 installed kde plasma and it works like magic 👍🏻

[@amitbisht6972]

I was using vcxsrv xserver for GUI part before but this seems way easy and even work when not connected to any network. Thanks for such a wonderful tutorial.

[@andre9036]

Thank you David. That was so sweet to watch and tried out.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Andrè!

[@theohallenius8882]

Microsoft should have told people during the infamous refund day "Don't worry guys, you'll be able to run Linux inside Windows ..... in 20 years"

[@sergiomancera9225]

Thank you David. I’m new viewing your channel and the more I had viewed the more I liked. It would be interesting talk about WSL2 network interfaces. Saludos desde México.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Sergio! This is on my list of videos :)

[@JustinRicheson]

"you may have to use a manual installation process to {install version 2004}" - the ONE THING Microsoft says NOT TO DO, because if 2004 is being withheld on your device it's because of a KNOWN INCOMPATIBILITY. - DO AT YOUR OWN RISK...HAVE BACKUPS!

[@ememmeme8722]

so sad what ubuntu has fallen into. now its just another software installed on a windows machine

[@michaelanderson7902]

Good video David thank you for all of your informative videos and motivational quotes.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Michael :)

[@eduardpaul7682]

Thank you so mutch i was about to give up with wsl2 but then i saw your video! : )👍

[@komaboi19]

Thank you, David. I cant get the new Windows 10 build working yet, but I still enjoyed the video.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you. Have you tried installing 2004 manually? It's possible, even though it does come at your own risk.

[@BlackTgaming]

thank you for this. Best guide I've found for this topic.

[@pmo764]

Awesome, worked flawlessly. I actually added tigervnc server which worked better than the remote desktop. RDP was laggy for me.

[@brunocracco2949]

Thank you so much for that very clear step by step tutorial. Great job !

[@AniRaccoon]

Ideally, if they did not connect via rdp, but native support. I opened the application in ubuntu, and you have a Linux program window in windows. This is the ideal option I'm waiting for.

[@fitsummichael3218]

Thank you, David, I like your posting and learned a lot from you. again thank you a million.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! Really happy that you are enjoying my content 😀

[@tommizer5845]

Concise, and just what is needed. Seriously good job, thanks!

[@pepecarpenter7286]

David you are awesome mate, thank you

[@DesmoSaze]

In very simple words, i'm amazed. Thank you !

[@nicholascureton933]

Thanks you so much. It's really helpful. Stay healthy David.

[@just-stuff]

Straight forward and just works. Thank you David :)

[@jacovanderwalt13]

Finally for it working ! thanx ! i did however get a bus11 error, but found a sollution for that. thank goodnes ! i did not manage to get winkex working

[@henryjeskelinen1636]

Thanks for good excellent tutorial. This works flawlessly. Have to look settings for web browser later. After installing Firefox, it will not start.

[@pxng0linhxcker927]

Thank you so much for this! I subscribed to your channel too, really really helped me, I've recently installed WSL for ethical hacking and even though terminal is fine, sometimes visualising is better, especially when opening the results (unless i use the explorer.exe command obv)

[@katchmathsyn]

Great! It worked! I needed that! Many thanks David!

[@Radiosabines]

Thanks you sir, it works for me on Macbook Pro early 2011, with win 10 PRO

[@colinappleby5527]

Fantastic tutorial. Short, succinct and to the point - and it worked!

[@eviltqueen2234]

Thank you so much! this was a very easy intuitive tutorial

[@premnathtg8506]

Neat and straight to the point, thank you very much for the very useful video! I had trouble with "apt upgrade" due to Avast Antivirus, after enabling "Internet connection sharing mode" under firewall settings everything else worked perfectly fine :)

[@ps2cscpp]

what was your destination connection? I see in my machine a vEthernet(WSL) ... did you used that?

[@amirlator]

Nice work!! Can make a video about setup the wsl2 sound? (Pulseaudio)

[@OscarOmarPosadaSanchez]

Thank you for sharing knowledge, greetings from Mexico colleague. 👋🏾🇲🇽

[@cottoffeus]

Fantastic. I have managed do all the staff by first attempt!

Thank you for your video! It is just what I was looking for!!!

[@davidbombal]

Glad it was helpful!

[@maksudulhossainjewel378]

Alhamdulillah. I could make it work by following your tutorial. Please keep posting good works.

[@premrajv8844]

David sir..!! No words..Thank you very much...!! Great Job expecting more

[@lordgaulo6520]

Thanks for showing this method I can now have a graphical ui on my server

[@klemmichard8916]

if like me you get "dbus-lunch" error, `sudo apt-get install -y dbus-x11` and you're good to go. Thanks so much, your way is really nice, thanks so much.

[@arwupig]

Jesus I can do it even my gpu is not working, amazingly good! David the king!

[@grainfrizz]

Can't get a clearer instructional video than this.

[@domenicotripepi7637]

what a professional channel! I love ur videos

[@dsm420]

Really, helped a lot. Thanks for making this video.

[@GermanoRicardi]

Congratulations on the tutorial, it worked perfectly! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! If someone prefers to install an open source version of chrome they can use this command sudo apt install -y chromium-browser

[@bharadwajreddy7840]

This video has helped me a lot. Thank you:)

[@markusmulholland]

So much better than trying to dual boot

[@CoolioBeans]

I seem to be experiencing some sort of crash. After I launch the RDP connection and I'm asked to select Xorg and enter my credentials, the window automatically closes after a few seonds.

[@manvindarsingh]

I am using wsl since it came out along with vs code for nodejs and python development, it really is super convenient for developers if you use it correctly

[@networktastic]

Thanks David, really good video... Solved a couple of problems that I had with physical Linux boxes as well

[@davidbombal]

Really happy to hear that Kevin!

[@TheFirefoxSystem]

Great work and wonderful explanation, thank you! After several experiments I removed xrdp and installed X410 (X server for Windows 10). It works great.

[@sarathy319]

We keep supporting..We would like to have more stugfs from linux and ubuntu from your channel..Good content

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Sarathy! I plan to create a lot of Linux content. Anything in particular that you would like to see?

[@sarathy319]

@@davidbombal in particular , would like to have more on windows sub system series , i.e More on Windows terminal on how to work with multiple environments (Win and Ubuntu ) and more on VS code (remote connection on Ubuntu programs) ..Also it would be nice if u have seperate series for Ubuntu and ubuntu with GUI ..

[@sarathy319]

Special mentions : series on Linux kernel insights (as a beginner in linux , can understand what makes it different from Windows)

[@davidbombal]

@@sarathy319 Watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZfRpZ2onreYapo and the other videos in my WSL series for some extra tips - like opening Linux files from Windows or using Linux commands in Windows.

[@sarathy319]

@@davidbombal yeah i saw that too...request from my side..any series for Linux content

[@d_sanu]

gdm3 and lightdm are basically login display managers - they show the initial login screen and session chooser, they don't work without systemd enabled in wsl2. they don't work with rdp

[@benbowyang]

Good clear explanation. Keep up the good work!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you John. Glad it was helpful!

[@sentient1640]

[Window Title] Remote Desktop Connection [Content] Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons: 1) Remote access to the server is not enabled 2) The remote computer is turned off 3) The remote computer is not available on the network Make sure the remote computer is turned on and connected to the network, and that remote access is enabled. [^] Hide details [OK] [Expanded Information] Error code: 0x204 Extended error code: 0x0 Timestamp (UTC): 12/16/23 01:45:30 AM Press Ctrl+C to copy.