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Old June 25th 20, 06:50 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Steve Thompson[_2_]
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At 05:37 25 June 2020, Surge wrote:
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:40:41 UTC+2, Dan Marotta wrote:
It's working again.=C2=A0 I just wiped the disk in my hangar computer

and=
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loaded it with Ubuntu v. 20.=C2=A0 It's so very much better than

Windows.=
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Dan, 5J


+1
If you find there are applications which only run on Windows you can run
th=
em in a Windows VM using Virtualbox, KVM, etc. without fiddling with

Wine.
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Even Microsoft are moving towards Linux (WSL on Windows, Azure

practically
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runs on Linux, etc.)

I've had no success with Wine or Virtual Box to run LX Styler or indeed
Garmin Express
since only windows 10 dev versions are available. Older ran OK. If you know
a good
howto, please post a link. Thanks . (running Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS)