[Discuss] Dealing with Windows 10 after 15 years away

[John Abreau]

I don't run them on the same machine; I run Fedora on my laptop, and
Windows in a KVM/qemu VM on a separate CentOS rackmount server that  I
purchased on ebay a couple years ago. The main things I need on the Windows
VM to integrate with Linux are PuTTY (ssh), FileZilla (sftp), and Mocha X11
(minimalist rootless X server). I use PuTTY for copy/pasting text back and
forth, and FileZilla for file transfers back and forth.

I don't even try to do Linux things on Windows; I use Windows only for what
I can't do on Linux, then transfer the results back over to Linux afterward.



On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 8:25 AM Doug <sweetser at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Who knows where technology companies are going to be in a year. For the
> last 15 years I have only used macs that connect to Linux machines. I
> thought it would be wise to buy a nuc and familiarize myself with windows
> 10.
>
> For ~$900 I got a 10th gen i5 with 32 Gb of RAM and a 1 Tb SSD. I have been
> able to install all the browsers (Edge was already there, Firefox, Chrome,
> Opera). For programming, I have taken a liking to Visual Studio Code which
> of course works well on such a machine. Anaconda was added to deal with
> python, my favorite language. Davinci Resolve is a professional-level video
> editing software and was trivial to install. I have installed Docker, so
> could get Linux working here.
>
> I installed Audacity to do some sound work. When I went to save it, I could
> see the roots of Windows in the C: and D: devices. After I saved a file, I
> actually lost its location. Maddening.
>
> My question for the group is this: if you prefer life in Unix but need to
> use a Windows box, are there a few programs you find are necessary to stay
> sane in a Windows environment?
>
> From long ago, I recall using cygwin but do not know of its current state
> or value. I saw one presentation on PowerShell, an idea to do deal with
> "objects" instead of text, but again, do not know if people like to use
> that for day-to-day work.
>
> Doug
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