[12:44] <rosika> Hi. Is it true that with the shift from LXDE to LXQt Lubuntu 20.04 has become a bit more resource-hungry?
[20:50] <santimir[m]> have been trying to install wow-usb, with no luck at all. The problem is that one of the dependencies isn't installable
[20:51] <santimir[m]> woeusb: Depends: libwxgtk3.0-0v5 but it is not installable
 are you on Focal?
[20:53] <eddyizm> just upgraded to focal here.
[20:54] <eddyizm> a nice upgrade from 19.10
 i was asking santimir
 santimir: if you're on 20.04 then the packaging for WoeUSB needs to be updated first
 the package names changed i think
[20:57] <santimir[m]> yes, i can't  get very well what you mean, sorry
 ahhh, wait a minute
 GTK2 support is gone, so I think part of the problem is that WoeUSB is not properly supported on 20.04 (it has GTK2 bindings)
[20:58] <santimir[m]> i don't know how to install windows then
[20:58] <santimir[m]> need it for work :-(
[20:59] <santimir[m]> i'm trying to build woe from source but it won't run
[21:07] <santimir[m]> from source it's running at least
[21:10] <kc2bez> santimir[m]: you would have to contact the ppa maintainer to update the package.
[21:11] <santimir[m]> i'm confused about what update means, isn't lubuntu outdated according to the previous comment?
[21:13] <kc2bez> The opposite actually. The ppa package was built before focal was released so the package didn't keep up with what was available to build with.
[21:13] <wxl> santimir[m]: the reference is to the ppa being outdated
[21:14] <wxl> oh jeez and it's webupd8 too so that's concerning
[21:14] <wxl> if they're not up on the maintainence that's a bad sign
[21:16] <kc2bez> It is concerning.
[21:16] <wxl> oh dude it's using wxwidgets
[21:18] <wxl> which is indeed still on gtk2 yuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
[21:18] <wxl> er
[21:19] <kc2bez> Admittedly I have never tried but isn't it possible to write a Windows USB using dd like you would a Linux iso?
[21:19] <wxl> or maybe stopped being updated after 11.04? https://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian
[21:19]  * wxl shrugs
[21:20] <wxl> windows is worth having… in a virtual machine
[21:21]  * kc2bez shrugs
[21:21] <wxl> so supposedly wxiwdgets SHOULD now handle gtk3 but my guess is they packaged it specifically around 2.6 to allow them to support the widest possible variety of versions
[21:21] <wxl> i mean gtk2 SHOULD still be around
[21:22] <kc2bez> It looks like there has been some activity on GitHub.
[21:22] <wxl> and that package that supposedly can't be installed is a gtk3 version
[21:24] <wxl> since woeusb seems to depend on a disk image, i bet it's easily used in a vm
[21:24] <kc2bez> The GitHub repo dropped libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev
[21:24] <kc2bez> 10 days ago
[21:30] <santimir[m]> i completely forgot you could install windows in a virtual machine
[21:31] <santimir[m]> it was successfully  installed though
[21:31] <santimir[m]> using the github version
[21:41] <santimir[m]> just out of curiosity; for an installation in a VM all we need is virtual box, windows.iso and some partition ain't it?
[21:42] <kc2bez> You don't need to partition, it will use your current storage. The new vm wizard should walk you through.
[21:44] <kc2bez> Virtualbox creates a disk image on your file system for your VM.
[22:52] <santimir[m]> thanks for this, it took just a couple of minutes to get the same result
[22:53] <santimir[m]> is there any reason why you prefer vms rather than a normal install of windows?
[23:30] <wxl> santimir[m]: because windows is a security nightmare and rather annoying to deal with anyways