Linux

6142 readers

239 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system

Also check out:

Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon

anzo

dwraf_of_ignorance

How to minimize pain of Windows in work environment? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/linux

67 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello all! I began working today, where the work is closely related to programming. Despite this, the work computer is set up as Windows (eww). I want to look for work-arounds, as installing linux on a work machine is a no-go.

I wonder, what is the way to minimize pain from having to use windows? Either that, or a way to maximize work done on linux-like stuffs. A linux server is given for us, and I think I can install WSL. Any recommendations on this setup?

Especially, I miss the virtual desktop feature, is there any way to use it? Is there a way I can run compositor through WSL? Also, should I install Pop! OS for the feature, or is it available on e.g. Ubuntu (default WSL)?

Sorry to ask a non-exclusively-linux question, but I think, hopefully, many linux people have experience to give me pointers what to do with a windows work environment.

EDIT: The Windows is Windows 10.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What exactly are you trying to get around? The question is kinda broad.

If your issue is your program behaving differently or being hard to set up depending on the OS, a common strategy is Docker.

PS: why is your employer forcing you to use old Windows that's going to go end-of-life basically tomorrow morning? That's odd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They said they work at a university...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Universities tend to be fans of outdated software?

[–] thisisnotgoingwell 1 points 11 hours ago

A few years ago a pretty big state university I worked at didn't use any kind of NAT. They had such a large public network space(a lot of universities do) that they would just give hosts public IPs. You could go home and just RDP into your desktop. Universities can be a wild wild west.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

They are very slow to change