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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social actually i've been curious about this for a while. what would it take to port X or Wayland and all the other stuff needed to run a Linux desktop to Windows? could be a fun project for someone with a severe lack of sanity

Some of it already works through WSL.

@soop @kde @kde porting x to windows? probably already been done. running windows apps inside of it? herculean task that probably demands access to windows source code or patching of critical system files. not worth it

@nano @kde @kde @soop oh it has, i remember at some point a long time ago i found and installed an x11 client for windows, just so i could use the linux version of something from my main pc (the application itself running on a raspberry pi, and mostly just because i couldn’t get the windows version to compile due to c build systems being an abject disaster)

it was basic but it worked, and i had an application on an external linux computer showing as just a normal window on windows, and i proceeded to use it exactly once

KDE already has Windows apps but I suspect making KDE work outside of Linux would be really challenging and probably impossible on Windows

@soop @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social you already said what it would take, their sanity.

@soop You joke but that existed around a decade ago.

@soop@wetdry.world @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social afaik, KDE 4 apparently could run on Windows, so I imagine its still possible with KDE 6 (you'd just need to port the non-windows components)