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Honestly I'd love for more Linux-only apps to be available on Windows, so, when I'm forced to use it, I can still get the same awesome libre apps I'm enjoying on Linux.
Despite that, I still haven't had the balls to open a single issue anywhere to support Windows 👀
Just use WSL
Real winners download the source code and compile it from scratch to flex on proprietary software users
I install windows from command line only
Reject modernity; Return to MS-DOS
it requires admin permissions... and on the only place where i'm forced to use windows i don't have those
Rdp server is the way then. xrdp for example
Probably shouldn't have access to that either if your IT department is doing a good job.
I'd rather die.
Are there any simple instructions. I swear everything is seen just goes over my head.
WSL is really easy to setup by now. In the beginning it was really terrible.
Now all you need to do (if you are fine with Ubuntu) is open CMD with admin rights and input
wsl --install.If you want another distro, it's
wsl -l -oto check the available distros andwsl --install -dto install it.More documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
Thanks. I'll check it out.
True, but it doesn't work for some apps in my experience
There’s probably some random config file on a forum post 18 years old where half the images don’t load cause the hosting service they used for image went down
Idk, mb some system-ish stuff? Otherwise it should work ~fine since wsl[2] is just a VM and not like a piece of art like wine
I'll try again some time to check, but last time I had trouble with some apps installed on openSUSE WSL, like some theming issues and some apps not opening (probably relying on system components as you say)
Give me ls on the cmd for fuck sake.
Works well on windows 10+ in powershell
as long as you don't try to pass it any flags, that is. M$ defined ls etc. as straight aliases to the equivalent PowerShell commands that have their own flag system, so if you ls -l it will puke
UUTILS
Huh? Libre is available on Windows.
libre as in free (speech)
Libre what? If you were thinking LibreOffice, I wasn't referring to that