Advice on linux on Windows
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Since I am sure several students have Windows laptops they are likely hesitant to do a full
+install of Linux on I wanted to share this link to installing the windows builtin Linux VM
+(much less work that finding some other VM setup and has nice integrations with VSCode)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install


This will let those interested have the Linux experience (default Ubuntu distro but other
+options are available) on windows if they desire, I believe WSL2 is the second interation also
+described near that page and has some added functionality.

The other thing is some friends have asked me about setting up their windows environment for
+Fortran.
I found this GUI installer (though there are others) for the mingw set of gcc and Fortran
+compilers here:

https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries

They likely need to add mingw/bin to their system environment path after installation to use it
+(it claims it does this for you but didn't seem to).

Just wanted to put these out there for anyone on a windows laptop, I dual boot with Linux at
+home but still prefer to keep the laptops manufacturer OS so I thought some others might feel
+the same.

Regards,

Daniel Harrington