It’s been a while since I looked at Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux, but today this happened to me…
This was as a simple as
The reality was a little more complicated (mostly because I put step 2 before step 1 LOL.) I find this pretty amazing, but at the moment I’m not sure how or if I’ll actually use it for anything practical.
Should be available as firefox-esr, assuming you are on stable bullseye (11)
firefox-esr? Extended service release? I assume this is feature frozen at some point in the distant past…
Debian has always been behind the curve, and I understand the motivation (stability for the most part) but it can be annoying at times. Got Debian stable, but need the latest code for Feature X? Time to break out the compiler and descend into dependency hell…
I don’t use Debian through WSL (I run it natively), but presumably you can still install Flatpak?
It’s great for getting newer versions than the repos without having to compile them.
If you consider less than a year ago as the distant past, then yes.
Firefox ESR is an official release/tag by Mozilla, they release a new major version (based on whatever is the current normal release of Firefox) every year or so. Debian 11 is on v102, which is the current major version.
@rrubberr Unfortunately that does not seem possible. Systemd and dbus both appear to be unsupported on WSL, breaking both flatpak and snap. It may be possible to install systemd using the normal method (i.e., apt) but I haven’t gotten that far yet.
@TheCakeIsNaOH Sorry, probably shouldn’t throw shade at Debian. It does what it’s designed to do very well. As a Linux gamer though, it’s lack of support for the latest technologies does prove irksome occasionally.
Is this still the case?
All I can say at the moment is that it didn’t work out of the box. I’ll check out the article and see what requirements are needed to make it work.
