# Installing using Windows Subsystem for Linux

**URL:** <https://community.mrtrix.org/t/installing-using-windows-subsystem-for-linux/1005>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** installation, linux, mrview\
**Created:** [July 4, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/installing-using-windows-subsystem-for-linux/1005 "2017-07-04T13:45:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdtournier](https://community.mrtrix.org/user_avatar/community.mrtrix.org/jdtournier/32/2594_2.png) [@jdtournier](https://community.mrtrix.org/u/jdtournier)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/installing-using-windows-subsystem-for-linux/1005/2 "2017-07-04T15:42:24Z")

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This is totally expected: Ubuntu Bash doesn’t provide a graphics (X11) stack. This was mentioned by @ThijsDhollander a while back in [this post](http://community.mrtrix.org/t/mrtrix-fsl-ants-on-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/377) (although it’s a minor side comment). You _might_ be able to get it to work using a separate standalone X server (see e.g. [this post](http://www.pcworld.com/article/3055403/windows/windows-10s-bash-shell-can-run-graphical-linux-applications-with-this-trick.html)), but I doubt it: you need OpenGL 3.3 support, I’d be (pleasantly) surprised if any X server solutions out there would provide such support… This is why we are still currently using the MSYS2 install, as per the [installation instructions](http://mrtrix.readthedocs.io/en/0.3.16/installation/windows_install.html#install-and-update-msys2) - this provides a _native_ Windows executable, with full graphics support.

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