Tag: Windows

Get Windows 10 Pro Installation media or a product key (if you don’t already have one) and download. Back up anything you want to keep on some kind of external storage (local or cloud) and make sure you have installation media or downloads (in a safe place, again external storage, local or cloud) for any software you will want to reinstall.

Base Install NB The author doesn’t have a tripod, nor the feeling of relevance for this part of the guide, so the quality of screen photos here is not as good as other guides out there—this version is only included in case you need the information right here, rather than to draw people to the site for an often-covered topic.

Core Isolation; A Security Recommendation Do as Soon as Possible The author recommends you go to Settings|Updates & Security|Windows Security|Device Security|Core Isolation Details and enable Memory Integrity (this is only possible if your CPU and BIOS support ‘Second Level Address Translation’ (SLAT) aka Intel Extended Pages); the longer you wait, the greater the chance that Windows will install incompatible drivers before you enable the isolation (on older hardware that is).

‘We’ have added a new set of pages for a Windows-Centric Combined Windows and Linux Setup

Preface These are notes on creating a Windows and Linux hybrid environment for developers (hence the use of Windows 10 Pro not Home), specifically when running Windows on a physical machine.

Ubuntu Cloud Images on Hyper-V now details how to use Packer to build a local Hyper-V compatible Ubuntu Cloud Image

Preface The official Ubuntu images that are built for Azure/Hyper-V really are only compatible with Hyper-V on Azure, despite Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) offering Azure/Hyper-V disk images at Ubuntu Daily Cloud Images - Focal.

Preface These are some personal notes about setting up a very nice combined Windows and Linux productivity and development environment. It uses open source software combined with some key proprietary pieces on a single machine.

In my opinion, Windows is deceptively clear and smooth, but when once one really shines a light on it, one finds significant imperfections. Linux may feel a little less polished, but is more what you see is what you get (or better) — there are imperfections for a power user / developer like me, but those idiosyncrasies are minor compared to the more problematic ones found in Windows.

Preface These are notes on creating a Windows and Linux hybrid environment, specifically when running Windows in a Libvirt/KVM VM. I also have Notes on Windows and Linux hybrid environment in a physical machine.

Preface These are notes on creating a Windows and Linux hybrid environment, specifically when running Windows on a physical machine. I also have Notes on Windows and Linux hybrid environment in a Libvirt/KVM VM.

Additional Security Settings Next, we want to use ‘Local Security Policy’. This can be found in the ‘Start Menu’ under ‘Windows Administrative Tools’. Set your Account Policy Navigate to Account Policy|Password Policy|Maximum password age The author recommends setting no maximum age on password as he believes it causes more trouble than it is worth to set an arbitrary forced password change.

A configuration for using Hugo on WSL(2) with Netlify and Netlify CLI