On 1/4/2021 9:53 PM, Moondog wrote:

so linux is fine if you didnt have to use the applications you use frequent

Which Windows -only applications do you have to rely on? I get by with Libre Office on my linux and Windows boxes, and if I needed MS Office for Access or VB script laden Excel spreadsheets, I could get by with the web-based 365 version.

If you're tied down to specific applications, things get sticky. Otherwise it's a matter of finding a replacement application.

When I had to do work from home at my previous job, I connected through a VPN session via remote connection or worked through a Citrix session.

Cannot speak for MRO, but for me about the only windows-only application
I use regularly is Visual Studio to support a few older projects/products.

I did run Linux on my home desktop (PopOS this last time) for about 5
months late 2018 and early 2019, which was painful because of brand new hardware. Finally had to switch to windows because I needed VS for a
project.

I did install WSL2, and Ubuntu under that, with Docker configured as
well, and TBH, it's really nice... all my desktop apps mostly just work, nothing really breaks on updates. Major updates in Linux usually pull me
down for half a day. All my work stuff is in WSL2/Docker and VS Code integrates with shell and remote debugging into that environment,
configuring a few gui bits to work for git and diffing the rest is
easy-peasy.

At this point, I'll probably stick to Windows + WSL for dev/linux
locally. I've got a few rpi projects, and remote linux hosts for
deployment and most of my day job work is now targetting kubernetes so
it works well enough.

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By: Tracker1 to Moondog on Thu Jan 21 2021 05:50 pm

I did install WSL2, and Ubuntu under that, with Docker configured as
well, and TBH, it's really nice... all my desktop apps mostly just work, nothing really breaks on updates. Major updates in Linux usually pull me down for half a day. All my work stuff is in WSL2/Docker and VS Code integrates with shell and remote debugging into that environment, configuring a few gui bits to work for git and diffing the rest is easy-peasy.

Glad to hear WSL working out for you. At work, we're going from ad hoc Linux VMs spun up and then forgotten about in my ESX cluster to WSL2 for local dev and a K8s cluster and containers for the heavy dev listing on ESX. I'll go from 120 VMs to a handful.

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On 1/23/2021 10:16 AM, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:

Glad to hear WSL working out for you. At work, we're going from ad
hoc Linux VMs spun up and then forgotten about in my ESX cluster to
WSL2 for local dev and a K8s cluster and containers for the heavy dev
listing on ESX. I'll go from 120 VMs to a handful.

It's taken close to 3 years but similar on this end. The main project
I'm on now has a docker-compose file setup for local dev/deps as well
as for internal QA handling. Main project I'm on is deploying to k8s
clusters on Azure.

Other projects are pushing towards a mix as there are still some things tethered to windows, but progress is progress.
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