migrating from Windows 7

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

I run Windows 7 and Windows 10 as VirtualBox guests. VirtualBox
probably is the easiest to use VM related to sharing folders between
host and guest and seamless integration with the Linux desktop. Some
guest apps run without serious performance losses, while other apps
suffer that much from performance losses, that they are rendered
useless. Some apps work pretty well with wine. Using wine prefixes some
apps available for Windows and Linux perform better by using the
Windows version under wine, than using the native Linux version.

I avoid virtualbox provided by distributions. In my experiences
packages from Linux distributions are a PITA. Using the binary version
from Oracle does avoid a lot of trouble.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/wine


In simplified terms, a reason for some users to avoid GNOME is the step
away from classic menus to burger menus or no menus at all.

Another annoyance requires a workaround:

"Since Gtk+ 3.10, its developers added a so-called header bar or custom
title bar. With this and the client-side decoration, the original title
bar and window border provided by the window manager are disabled by
Gtk+. This makes all Gtk+ 3 programs look alike. Even worse, this may
break some window manager or compositors."
- https://github.com/ZaWertun/gtk3-nocsd

Configuration became tricky, gsettings and dconf have got some
advantages, but also disadvantages and both are way to hard to use for
"averaged" users.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/gsettings.1.html
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/dconf.1.html

Regards,
Ralf