[repsilat]

I use vim in it when I code on my home computer, haven't had any problems. I haven't tried tmux, but I think that'd be fine too.

I'm less sure about things that require a GUI, and last time I tried postgres it didn't work. That was a while ago, though, and they might have made progress since. TFA says the postgres tests are passing.

[quanticle]

Things that require a GUI require you to have a separate X server running. WSL, as far as I know, does not support running X11. However, if you do have a Windows native X11 server running (like xming, for example) things like emacs and gvim seem to work. I haven't tried anything more intensive than those, though.

[daenney]

> Things that require a GUI require you to have a separate X server running. WSL, as far as I know, does not support running X11.

They mention X/GUI support in the "What's new in Bash/WSL" article[1].

> Note: Some of you may also have been following along with some intrepid explorations into running X/GUI apps and desktops on WSL. While we don’t explicitly support X/GUI apps/desktops on WSL, we don’t do anything to block/prevent them from running. So if you manage to get your favorite editor, desktop, browser, etc. running, GREAT but know that we are still focusing all our efforts on delivering a really solid command-line experience, running all the command-line developer tools you need.

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/04/11/wind...

[112233]

youtube in firefox played ok.