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

[Tahir Hafiz]

Thank you all for the advice!
Just to say I was able to install WSL 1 manually (can't install WSL 2 on
Win 10 version 1809), and after that (although I don't have access to the
MS Store app) I was able to install Ubuntu for WSL on the Windows 10
machine manually as well.
That gives me a nice Ubuntu bash cli application as well as all the Linux
good stuff like find, curl, awk, etc. So although I can't run X/Wayland
apps for me I think that is good enough.

I still have Windows Explorer as the file browser - is there a good open
source alternative to that like perhaps a Windows port of Konqueror or
Nautilus?



On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 9:23 AM 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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