After Microsoft made the mind-blowing announcement that Linux’s BASH terminal would be supported on Windows 10, many began to wonder if it’d be possible to initiate an X server (the accelerated window manager for Linux) to run GUI applications. In its shipping form, both Microsoft and Canonical expect people to use only command-line based applications in the BASH terminal, but as it happens, you are able to run some GUI apps as well.
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