[GTALUG] two or three tricks for installing Linux as a second OS on a Windows box

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Mar 8 08:58:58 EST 2022


On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 11:28:15AM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> On 2022-03-07 07:39, William Park via talk wrote:
> > I used to dual-boot, but now I use separate Linux computer.  If I need
> > to copy files, I use ssh/scp in WSL Ubuntu.
> 
> For those times when you need to copy files and you are on the Windows
> machine you could use WinSCP.

But you want a bash shell on windows anyhow, so WSL makes the perfect
CLI on windows.

I even have samba setup, and never use it, I just scp.

winscp is a nice tool, but it's no match for a linux shell.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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