I just opened the Dolphin file explorer, scrolled to the Network entry in the left-hand navigation pane then – in the right-hand pane – clicked on the Shared Folders (SMB) icon and the Windows devices appeared. Network discovery: This is the first Linux distro I have used where – out-of-the box – I was able to discover, connect to and browse shared resources on Windows devices across my LAN with *no* configuration whatsoever. My installation of the components took over 3.5 hours in total, not helped that new component installer screens often kept appearing *behind* the commandline console window used to show progress… so I was often unaware that another component was ready for installation.Ģ.
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 took nearly 1.5 hours. Installation for all of the Windows compatibility components: Jack mentions this can take “30-60 minutes (depending on the speed of your network)” for the components used for the Wine layer.Īnyone who has ever used the Wayback Machine knows that downloads from are painfully slow, e.g. A few points not mentioned in Jack Wallen’s review ( Windowsfx is the Linux distribution Windows users have been looking for ):ġ.
