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| Apart from the need to install either //ncurses// or //wget// manually before the Giocoso installer can be launched successfully, therefore, there's little difference between running Giocoso running on Windows via Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora. The choice of distro to host the Giocoso installation is therefore largely immaterial. Arch is //suit generis// however... and I can't honestly recommend trying to run Giocoso on that distro within Windows. | Apart from the need to install either //ncurses// or //wget// manually before the Giocoso installer can be launched successfully, therefore, there's little difference between running Giocoso running on Windows via Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora. The choice of distro to host the Giocoso installation is therefore largely immaterial. Arch is //suit generis// however... and I can't honestly recommend trying to run Giocoso on that distro within Windows. |
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| ===== 6.0 Non-Suported Distros ===== | ===== 6.0 Non-Supported Distros ===== |
| I'll conclude this description of getting Giocoso running under Windows by mentioning that although there aren't many distros that are //officially// supported by Microsoft for running in a WSL2 environment, WSL2 can actually run pretty much //any// Linux distro, with varying degrees of awkwardness. Sometimes, distros provide specially-packaged versions of their distro to make life fairly easy (think: [[https://github.com/VPraharsha03/DevuanWSL/releases|Devuan]] or [[https://github.com/sileshn/ManjaroWSL2/releases|Manjaro]]). For other distros, you'd have to construct your own converted distro 'bundle' and import it to the WSL environment: I won't document that approach here, but you essentially have to extract the root file system from the standard ISO and turn it into a tarball, which can then be imported into WSL. There are guides on how to do this elsewhere on the Internet. | I'll conclude this description of getting Giocoso running under Windows by mentioning that although there aren't many distros that are //officially// supported by Microsoft for running in a WSL2 environment, WSL2 can actually run pretty much //any// Linux distro, with varying degrees of awkwardness. Sometimes, distros provide specially-packaged versions of their distro to make life fairly easy (think: [[https://github.com/VPraharsha03/DevuanWSL/releases|Devuan]] or [[https://github.com/sileshn/ManjaroWSL2/releases|Manjaro]]). For other distros, you'd have to construct your own converted distro 'bundle' and import it to the WSL environment: I won't document that approach here, but you essentially have to extract the root file system from the standard ISO and turn it into a tarball, which can then be imported into WSL. There are guides on how to do this elsewhere on the Internet. |
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