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.
True, but it doesn't work for some apps in my experience
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)
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
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 -o to check the available distros and wsl --install -d to install it.
More documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Huh? Libre is available on Windows.
libre as in free (speech)
Libre what? If you were thinking LibreOffice, I wasn't referring to that
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
Can't think of any applications that I use in Linux that aren't available on Windows.
A lot of terminal apps tend to skip windows, ungoogled chromium doesn’t have a official windows release
A lot of open source projects do have windows versions, and the big projects that come to mind like blender or Firefox definitely do… but there’s a a lot of little pieces of software that don’t. One example that comes to mind for me is the Dino XMPP client… Linux only for now, unfortunately!
Interesting. Are you able to install through WSL?
I have no idea as I’ve never been a windows user, haha. Dino is one of the examples I know about though, because I know I can’t recommend it to windows users.
WSL is Windows Subsystem for Linux. It allows you to use Linux from within Linux. Though there's probably some major thing I'm missing which makes it fundamentally different from just running a VM.
Emacs is a rough experience for one.
A lot of ML stuff does not, e.g. Microsoft DeepSpeed.
Lots and lots of CLI programs as well.
Guitarix was one of those for me. I know there are better virtual amps on windows but I quite enjoyed guitarix for its open and free nature. Plus audio routing on windows is a nightmare.
Guitarx is rad. Had no idea it didn't work in Windows.
Yeah, last time I checked it suggested you just use a live install if you wanted to use it lol. I don't think it even works in macos despite macos having Macports, quartzx11 and jackctl support.
Sayonara music player
Best local music player in my opinion 🎶
Well, they can compile, usually it's under MIT, AGPL etc
Windows users have never heard that word before. Compile? Whats that? An app?
There was a time when the Freezer devs didn't make a windows version of some updates, and their solution was to use it via WSL. So I never used it again.
It’s not their responsibility to make a proprietary shithole os easier to use
I do not understand the meme. Do you mean complaining about absent system requirements?
Windows users complaining that a Linux (or at a stretch, even Mac) app doesn't have a Windows version.
I remember having issues with Wireshark on Windows since it doesn't include a lot of libs that it can use to monitor traffic. Does that count on the list?
People telling you "I would like to use a Mac so much but I need Windows". Well fuck you Tiffany I dont care
I use Arch btw
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