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[Lars Fosdal 1792]

I wrote a small cookbook on getting Ubuntu up and running and setting up Rio and Sydney for compiling Linux applications.

 

 

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Originally, this was done to try to figure out why @Angus Robertson had issues with getting his Ubuntu environment working.

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Oh, BTW - VS Code and Powershell 7 works beautifully under Ubuntu 18.04 🙂

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Added a miniscule example using FMX for Linux at the end.

[Bill Meyer 337]

Tried to leave a comment on your article. Logged in to WordPress, but the Post Comment button doesn't appear to do the post....

Tried in both Vivaldi and MS Edge.

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Strange, @Bill Meyer. Appears to work for me.


 

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

You could always leave a comment here instead 🙂

[Bill Meyer 337]

33 minutes ago, Lars Fosdal said:

You could always leave a comment here instead 🙂

Too easy. 😉

I briefly considered Hyper-V on my main machine, but I have a substantial commitment to VirtualBox and as it does not (yet) play well with Hyper-V, making the change is impractical. My VBox VMs pay the rent, and that trumps other considerations.
I have also considered going dual-boot, but that leads into research regarding the UEFI complications with an SSD as my boot drive. And I am not willing to risk creating problems on my primary machine.

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

Defintively a valid point.  
You can install 18.04 in a VB VM as well, and the rest remains the same.
 

[Bill Meyer 337]

54 minutes ago, Lars Fosdal said:

Defintively a valid point.  
You can install 18.04 in a VB VM as well, and the rest remains the same.
 

I know. But I'd really like to boot into Ubuntu and run VBox there with one of my existing VMs.