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These days windows + Ubuntu 18 on a virtual box are a great substitute. Some might consider it better if you need to use excel (one of the greatest pieces of s
by projectramo 8y ago
These days windows + Ubuntu 18 on a virtual box are a great substitute.
Some might consider it better if you need to use excel (one of the greatest pieces of software ever)
- vtesucks 8y agoAnd OneNote which was hands down the only thing keeping me on windows until wsl came along.
- projectramo 8y agoI love OneNote too so I have to ask: what is WSL?
- vtesucks 8y agoMicrosoft if you're reading this this is your fault for not marketing enough. WSL is windows subsystem for Linux. Think of it like this- say you have an 'ls' binary from UNIX machine. You have WSL enabled on your machine in Windows. Windows will start the ls process and the UNIX calls will be handles in windows. (the kernel has mappings). It's possible, and actually its wonderful experience, to run full "linux" environment right from windows at native speed. It's not perfect and one of the biggest issues has been file system speed but besides that and some other smaller issues its the absolute best of both worlds- OneNote + excel + outlook + i3
- odiroot 8y agoIt's the opposite for me: Linux (first Gentoo, now Ubuntu) with Windows in a VM for specific apps (tax software, AoE 2 etc.) I'm super satisfied with such setup for last 10+ years.