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So, as a mostly Windows guy: What Linux GUI apps are you going to run? What has a Linux GUI but no Windows app or alternative?

by yread 6y ago

aye01 6y ago
its mostly for people doing work in the WSL world. If you're writing code, you can throw up an IDE running directly inside WSL and run toolchains that exist inside WSL altogether. Before, you'd have to do something like use WSL remote or open the project in a Windows program and edit the Linux file, then use the Windows version runtime of whatever langauge youre using to use any of the built in IDE features for that language.
jraph 6y ago
> What has a Linux GUI but no Windows app or alternative? I don't know about alternatives (it seems Cubase is a proprietary one), but Rosegarden [1] is a GNU/Linux "audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool" that does not seem to have a Windows build (a maintained one anyway). It's a great app, I guess it could convince a musician to use Linux for some music-related activities. I don't know if it runs (well) in WSL (1 or 2). Rosegarden aside, I'm not sure there is a single app I use regularly that absolutely can't run on Windows (some can run on Windows (and Mac), but probably run way better on GNU/Linux, like the Kate editor, and Clementine seems to have a spotty Windows support too). [1] https://rosegardenmusic.com/ https://rosegardenmusic.com/
gizmo385 6y ago
My first reaction would be custom terminal applications (i.e. Terminator)
- icebergonfire 6y ago
  Vouching for this, haven’t found an native alternative for Windows. Feels odd to run another entire OS just for a terminal application, but here we are.
SSLy 6y ago
transmission-remote-gtk
Lownin 6y ago
I suspect it'd be easier to set up a more robust DOOM Emacs inside WSL than native Windows (which the DOOM docs advise is somewhat unadvised), and the GUI version fo Emacs provides some features the CLI version doesn't have.
- sevrinsky 6y ago
  Yes, I already run Emacs (Spacemacs, to be specific) under WSL2 with X410 as the X Server. Presumably, I'll be able to ditch X410 when this layer gets to my corporate-mandated Windows build.
accelbred 6y ago
All that I can install in wsl instead. Firefox, alacritty, etc. I'd rather use Linux versions even if there is a Windows version just for sane package management.
Narishma 6y ago
Wine, so you can run old Windows apps on Windows 10.
hexmiles 6y ago
in my case i couple of app that have windows equivalent, but i also install them inside linux for better io performance. The main one is sublime merge since, while i can access my wsl repository form windows, doing so is very slow. instead i have smerge on both windows and linux to access the respective filesystem. I admin it is a bit confusing at times...
madeofpalk 6y ago
I want to run a git GUI occasionally for my codebase that's in WSL2.
kart23 6y ago
GNOME Mines. Windows minesweeper has ads in-game now
- anthk 6y ago
  Just get SGT puzzles.

So, as a mostly Windows guy: What Linux GUI apps are you going to run? What has a Linux GUI but no Windows app or alternative?

by yread 6y ago

So, as a mostly Windows guy: What Linux GUI apps are you going to run? What has a Linux GUI but no Windows app or alternative?

aye01 6y ago

its mostly for people doing work in the WSL world. If you're writing code, you can throw up an IDE running directly inside WSL and run toolchains that exist inside WSL altogether. Before, you'd have to do something like use WSL remote or open the project in a Windows program and edit the Linux file, then use the Windows version runtime of whatever langauge youre using to use any of the built in IDE features for that language.

jraph 6y ago

> What has a Linux GUI but no Windows app or alternative? I don't know about alternatives (it seems Cubase is a proprietary one), but Rosegarden [1] is a GNU/Linux "audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool" that does not seem to have a Windows build (a maintained one anyway). It's a great app, I guess it could convince a musician to use Linux for some music-related activities. I don't know if it runs (well) in WSL (1 or 2). Rosegarden aside, I'm not sure there is a single app I use regularly that absolutely can't run on Windows (some can run on Windows (and Mac), but probably run way better on GNU/Linux, like the Kate editor, and Clementine seems to have a spotty Windows support too). [1] https://rosegardenmusic.com/ https://rosegardenmusic.com/

gizmo385 6y ago

My first reaction would be custom terminal applications (i.e. Terminator)

icebergonfire 6y ago
Vouching for this, haven’t found an native alternative for Windows. Feels odd to run another entire OS just for a terminal application, but here we are.

SSLy 6y ago

transmission-remote-gtk

Lownin 6y ago

I suspect it'd be easier to set up a more robust DOOM Emacs inside WSL than native Windows (which the DOOM docs advise is somewhat unadvised), and the GUI version fo Emacs provides some features the CLI version doesn't have.

sevrinsky 6y ago
Yes, I already run Emacs (Spacemacs, to be specific) under WSL2 with X410 as the X Server. Presumably, I'll be able to ditch X410 when this layer gets to my corporate-mandated Windows build.

accelbred 6y ago

All that I can install in wsl instead. Firefox, alacritty, etc. I'd rather use Linux versions even if there is a Windows version just for sane package management.

Narishma 6y ago

Wine, so you can run old Windows apps on Windows 10.

hexmiles 6y ago

in my case i couple of app that have windows equivalent, but i also install them inside linux for better io performance. The main one is sublime merge since, while i can access my wsl repository form windows, doing so is very slow. instead i have smerge on both windows and linux to access the respective filesystem. I admin it is a bit confusing at times...

madeofpalk 6y ago

I want to run a git GUI occasionally for my codebase that's in WSL2.

kart23 6y ago

GNOME Mines. Windows minesweeper has ads in-game now

anthk 6y ago
Just get SGT puzzles.