[EdLUG] how to make a Windows 10 laptop more Linux like

[Gábor Majoros]

Hi Tahir,

You can install ssh client and server provided by Microsoft.
 Also if you have not done so already, would suggest to check out WSL,
windows Linux subsystem, it's very usable.

Kind regards,

Gabor

On Fri, 9 Apr 2021, 09:24 Tahir Hafiz, <tahir.hafiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> For my new job I have to use a Windows 10 Enterprise (version 1809) laptop
> with a low level account  - it's quite restricted but they have given me
> another account too - a privileged level account to install software from
> the internet (the MS Store is disabled however).
>
> What are some of the best and easiest ways to make a Windows machine more
> Linux like these days? Back in the day when I used to use Windows for work
> I would install Cygwin as that would give me a bash like shell as well as
> sed, awk, grep, find, etc, etc.
> I still need access to the Windows file system on this laptop and the
> files on the file system so a Virtual Machine is probably not a good idea
> (and I think it's against policy anyways).
>
> Thank you for any help you can provide.
>
> Cheers,
> Tahir
>
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