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

[Andrew Ramage]

Firefox or Chrome are both available for Windoze and Linux. Though your 
employer may require Edge.  (As IE was required a while ago).

On 09/04/2021 14:58, Tahir Hafiz wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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