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I had a little time this morning waiting for some skype meeting to start. I had already installed BASH for Windows 10 and wanted to see how great it is. LXSS means Linux Subsystem for Windows and X is X Server.

So i hit start, typed in bash and typed in :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libreoffice

It did download 500 megs worth of stuff including openjdk but it seemed to work.

I then type “java” and surely, java started – quite impressed already.

Then i typed “libreoffice” (find out about libreoffice here) but i got a standard “Failed to open display”, which is unix speak for i cannot reach the display server (X Windows).

Fine fine fine, so i donwloaded an x server for windows started it up and typed “export DISPLAY=:0.0”. Again i typed “libreoffice” and voilà, LibreOffice running on LXSS on Windows 10 displaying via TCPIP to a Windows X Server.

Now that is impressive… I am curious to see where this stuff is going. Will Microsoft implement a UWP Wayland Display Server and leave X to third parties ? Will Microsoft implement AOSP (Android Open Source Project) over LXSS and implement  most devices drivers that piggy back to Windows 10 native drivers and then remote the UI for apps the way they do with the Visual Studio Android Emulator ?

Very cool things are doable i believe… the long question though… what to do with GMS (Google Mobile Services). Allow it, re implement it or ignore it (the Amazon way).