carrylexLike Windows explorer but better
blaveI don’t know how much of this is going on now, but in the early days, one could run a variety of linux apps in windows with the correct runtimes installed.
NailbarWas it cygwin, or something? I vaguely recall running an X server on Windows so I could display remote Linux gui apps locally.
You’re thinking of remote X server, but there was also something called Cygwin that allowed you to run certain Linux apps within a virtualized environment. It was basically just an X window that opened up in windows inside of which you could run Linux apps.