I use Ubuntu. OK, it's not exactly Windows, but Canonical seem to do a
good job of maintaining it I use the Long Term Support (LTS) versions
because they only become obsolete after five years. There's a more
Windows looking spin-off of Ubuntu: Linux Mint that I tried it and
didn't really see the point. Of course, Ubuntu is based on Debian which
is very solid.
As for get-iplayer. I've got it on my laptop which is currently running
Ubuntu 18.04 (April 2018) and it seems to work when I use it and is part
of the distribution. The copy that does all the work with a nightly
cron job is on a server which still has Ubuntu 16.04. On the latter, I
just checked and I have a PPA (Personal Package Archive) from
https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer that
must have been necessary at some time. I'm about to update the server
to 18.04 and then 20.04 which is just out, so I'll see if I still need
the PPA.
Anyway, I've been using Ubuntu for years and although, clearly it can't
run lots of Windows applications well, it has a decent office suite that
reads and edits the Microsoft formats, all the usual browsers: Firefox,
Chrome, etc. The only problem I have is with Adobe DRM and for that I
run an old copy of Windows 7 in Oracle Virtualbox.
Good luck. I'm sure it will all come back to you.
regards
John
On 28/05/2020 14:25, Dave Widgery wrote:
Hi
I am looking at possibly moving our two notebooks over to linux, I
used to be a Unix system Manager (although 15 years ago and very
rusty) so I am not too worried which flavour. but my wife struggles
with windows these days so I need something that has a good look and
feel of the windows GUI, we don't use much in the way of windows
programs, but having something with good windows emulation would be
good.
Lastly I do want to run get_iplayer on my laptop so I need something
that there is a get_iplayer distribution available.
I was looking at robolinux that provides appears to provides good
windows look and feel and windows compatibility, I wondered if anyone
had any experience of robolinux or can suggest a suitable alternative.
Thanks in advance
Dave
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