replacing Windows w/ Linux

[Kevin Fries]

One thing every Linux user knows is that not all software is created equal.  While I find some of the standard tools we use (like InkScape, and Gimp) to be actually better than most paid options in Windows (sure some of the expensive graphical tools will exceed the Linux tools, but the mid-range and low cost ones are often better in Linux).

However there are some tools that really have no replacement.  Visio is one of the best known ones.  One trick I have used with great success is RDesktop with SeamlessRDP.  Rather than running windows as a VirtualBox and trying to move back and forth.  You can actually have windows programs (running in a VM in the background) appear on your desktop like first class Linux apps.

Works really, really well if you take the time to set it up right, and freaks out your windows friends when you show them the new Linux port of Adobe Photoshop.  Watch them Google the heck out of it.  LOL.

Kevin

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On Apr 30, 2019, 4:06 PM, at 4:06 PM, David Schwartz <newsletters at thetoolwiz.com> wrote:
>I have an odd question … suppose I wanted to take a fairly vanilla
>Windows computer with Win 7 ... 10 on it, like your typical Dell or
>Lenovo or Asus laptop or desktop; suck that OS install with all the
>apps into a VirtualBox VM; copy that VM off to a backup drive; fully
>reformat the HDD and install some friendly version of Linux; and
>finally load up VirtualBox and then the VM and make the VM work so it
>looked and acted virtually identical to how it did before. 
>
>So, I’m not asking HOW to do this … I wouldn’t have much trouble doing
>it myself.
>
>What I’m wondering is if there are any resources around that would
>explain how an average person could do it without much trouble? Videos,
>books, eBooks, tutorials, whatever.
>
>Also, for anybody who’s been through this process, how long did it
>take? Or how long would you expect it to take based on similar
>experiences?
>
>-David Schwartz
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