While we discovered in part three of this blog series how to run graphical openSUSE Linux programs within WSL, a lot of readers, including myself, started exploring this new opportunity. Given the feedback we received (either through comments or direct emails/chats), it seems that many of us (and by that, I have to count myself in) hit a road block at some point. Things didn’t work out as expected.

I have one piece of good news, and two pieces bad news for you. The good news is, it’s not really openSUSE related, however, the first bit of bad news is that it’s not only affecting graphical programs but command line tools as well, and the second piece of bad news is that it’s because of WSL itself not providing a 100% compatible environment that Linux is expecting. So any Linux within WSL, including the default one, that we replaced, is going to face very similar issues. But SUSE to the rescue!