[tlug] Slow Cautious Migration from Windows to Linux (was Replacing text in multiple files - under Windows)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

jep200404 writes:

 > 1. Use Windows version of GNU tools. 

Somewhere between unxutils and Cygwin there's MSYS.  The advantage of
MSYS is that it doesn't try to be POSIX; rather it aims at
ABI-compatibility with Windows.

 > 2. Dual Boot. 

I had to do this when I first got to Japan, boot to E-Win for English
and to J-Win for Japanese, and when I needed both, *I* got the boot.
That led immediately to a long and mostly happy affair with
DESQview/X, which led to Linux.

I can't recommend it unless absolutely necessary.