Turns out that I didn't need to do anything "extra" to be able to run graphical Linux apps on Windows 11 after installing WSL. One thing I did have to do to make it work was add Hyper-V as a feature as it was not enabled by default, nor enabled when you run wsl --install. After this all I had to do is run install an app like gedit. An icon is even added to the Windows 11 start menu and you can launch apps without having to previously start WSL.
#Just realized, before I install
Proxmox on that Beelink I should check out
WSL, and in particular the ability to run graphical Linux apps.
#Don't know why, but for some reason, I find editing a outline in Drummer that is served by pagePark to be very satisfying. I can keep the rendered version of the outline open in a tab while editing it in Drummer and instantly see the changes without having to do any builds or updates. It jut works!
#I am going to start my next personal
tech project of building a new
Proxmox host using the Beelink U59.
#I have a virtual machine on my
Macbook Air M1 that runs the ARM version of Windows 11, and I decided to try running Geekbench on it but found that the "native" Windows version does not run. I did run the browser benchmarks and notice that Edge performance is 3x faster than Chrome, suggesting that Edge on this version of Windows 11 is native ARM whereas the version of Chrome is probably being translated in some way.
#
- I recently obtained a new PC, the Beelink U59, and to get an idea of how well it performs in comparison to other computers I downloaded and ran Geekbench V6. The Macbook M1 is my highend computer that is magnitudes faster than my work computer and the new Beelink. The Beelink only has an Intel Celeron processor and costs magnitudes less than the Macbook, so this is not a surprise.#
- I've been using Geekbench since Version 4, so you can see the differences in the benchmarking between versions. The compute score for the Macbook M1 increased slightly from Version 5 to 6 (18737 to 20207), but the compute score for my HP EliteBook 745 G6 went down from 8246 to 6531. Regardless of the actual numbers, they support my actual experience that the computer I use most each day for work (the HP) is magnitudes slower than my personal computer. (I wish my employer would provide a VM that I could run on the Macbook, I would probably enjoy that much more than using the HP.)#
- While Geekbench does CPU and Compute benchmarking, I like to do browser performance benchmarking because I mostly use web apps and thus feel these benchmarks might give me a better indication of the performance that I will see. The browser benchmarks provide me some interesting stories. #
- For example, using Chrome on Windows 11, the Beelink U59 browser performance is better than on my work computer that has an Intel I5 processor. What really surprises me is how bad Chrome on the Pixelbook performs, it is worse by a large margin. The other thing I learned is that Chrome is faster than Firebox. #