[joosebox]

Linux on Windows is still a disaster? It's been something I want to play around with but haven't had the chance yet.

[andimm]

I read it as a standalone Linux on Desktop is a disaster. Not Linux on Windows.

[walshemj]

Hardly a disaster ok open office isn't as good as Office but its a perfectly workable solution.

[ranqet]

The fact that there is a wall between the Linux stuff and Windows stuff (“You can't edit a file that originates from the Linux userland inside Windows.”) sounds very hacky to me.

[walshemj]

Just do a samba share from the Linux vm to windows

[tracker1]

It's not a VM, it's like the inverse of WINE... it's a compatibility layer... and that one piece (not being able to edit files in the LSW from windows/gui) is what keeps me off of it.

[walshemj]

Oh why not use windows pro and hyper-v then and run a Linux vm then that's assuming you don't run a small whitebox server to do your dev on?

[tracker1]

I do.. and samba to use a GUI editor against files in the VM. That said, there's the overhead of a full VM... some of the same reasons one would use WINE instead of a full Windows VM.