Installing Linux GUI applications seems fairly easy on WSL 2. Main requirement is to have the graphics driver installed and the WSL being on version 2.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps
You can list WSL versions by running
wsl --list --verbose
Error when trying to ping
ping: socket: Operation not permitted
Looks like it is a permissions issue. To resolve it, find where your ping binary is and change the permissions on it
sudo chmod 4711 /usr/bin/ping
Example:
$ which ping
/usr/bin/ping
$ sudo chmod 4711 /usr/bin/ping
$ ping incredigeek.com