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This is regarding “version one” You probably want Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

Windows 10 logo Linux logo - 'Tux'

Software >
Windows, Linux >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

A way to run Linux commandline software from a specialized console, similar to how a command prompt runs DOS or PowerShell.

It works well, but it’s imperfect.

  • aka wsl
  • Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows

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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/p/exiftool/code/ci/master/tree/
https://exiftool.org/

For reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF metadata.

  • 2018-05-02 – 9.74-1 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD

    • \apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
  • 2017-05-31 – 9.74-1 on Devuan 1.0.0-beta

    • \apt-get install exiftool
  • 2009-03-25 – (version not recorded) on PCLinuxOS (version not recorded)

    • \apt-get install perl-Image-ExifTool
Kingdom - Classic - (2015 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.kingdomthegame.com/

A fauldschool resource game that would have made for a fine free Flash game, but is instead for-pay.

Fair.

  • Properly titled Kingdom: Classic

    • aka Kingdom
  • Also Kingdom: New Lands



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Dungeon of the Endless - (2014 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/249050/

A semi-roguelike tower defence-ish game.

Utterly impossible. Doesn’t make a lick of sense. Unlimited waves of stuff, for some reason. Can’t build enough, the resource limitations are obscene.

Software >

(on Wikipedia)
http://www.swingswingsubmarine.com/games/seasons/

So cute! Whenever I play a game with a little fox type thing, I will always think of Okami – (2006 game).

I ended up getting stuck at the winter/summer level, trying to go east with the spirit. I guess I’m the first person to ever play this, ever.

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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: Ghostscript
https://ghostscript.com/

A suite of software for dealing with PDFs.

It’s a requirement for other software, and I only care about actually using it for repairing PDFs.



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Software > Scanners >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.hamrick.com/

It really looks great.

VueScan supports the CanoScan LiDE 120, which I tested it with.

It watermarks what it scans, unless you buy it. It’s not worth $50 for something decent, because my scanner cost that. $100 to get OCR cooked-in also isn’t worth it.