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    [–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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 👀

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (5 children)
    [–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Real winners download the source code and compile it from scratch to flex on proprietary software users

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I install windows from command line only

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

    Reject modernity; Return to MS-DOS

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    it requires admin permissions... and on the only place where i'm forced to use windows i don't have those

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Rdp server is the way then. xrdp for example

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

    Probably shouldn't have access to that either if your IT department is doing a good job.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    True, but it doesn't work for some apps in my experience

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    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)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Are there any simple instructions. I swear everything is seen just goes over my head.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    Thanks. I'll check it out.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    I'd rather die.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Give me ls on the cmd for fuck sake.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Works well on windows 10+ in powershell

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Huh? Libre is available on Windows.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    libre as in free (speech)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    Libre what? If you were thinking LibreOffice, I wasn't referring to that