Is there a "Rasbian simulation enviroment" for windows??

[bhepler]

@mwel1977 - I’m not sure of your job position or duties, but I think you can make a decent argument to your corporate management that you are expanding your skills and experience with Unix-like environments, plus your skills with virtual machines. If your company does anything with cloud computing or virtual desktops, you can make a strong case that you are using down time to increase your value to the company.

Running VMWare or MS Hypervisor on your laptop and spinning up a small Ubuntu server to experiment upon will teach you a lot of things unrelated to the Magic Mirror. If you really want to be sure, ask your supervisor if you can use your work laptop to teach yourself about virtual machines and Unix/Linux/Debian/Ubuntu. People with Unix skills are in high demand. People with experience with virtual machines are also valuable, especially in this age of cloud computing.

Now the downside: Anything you develop on your work laptop while at work belongs to your company. It’s not yours. So if you create a cool module for us, you don’t actually own it. Don’t expect that you do.

[sdetweil]

On your work laptop ANYWHERE ANYTIME doesn’t belong to you

[MWel1977]

@bhepler I’m actualy part of a group formed here at the company by the company we call “Hackthon team”. It’s purpose being to create tools for coworkers to make work faster, better and to reduce stress. As a 3D modeller (structural modeller) I’m a Autodesk Dynamo “expert”.
Dynamo is program for a visual scripting and has it’s own “nodes” but it can also read Python.

And that’s why I bought Arduino boards and now Raspberry pi (nano W, 2B and 3B+)
Me being a person that need the hands-on learning curve (instead of reading a book and I can create a program in Python) would like to build something and start making a add-on for that something to get to know Python (or some other for of programming).

Because now and then I have to wait for data and would like to use that time to learn.
And having a Pi running in a virtual enviroment would be awesome.
I know what I develop here doesn’t belong to me, but when I learn during the down time at work and create something on my real Pi at home does! :smiling_face_with_halo:

[MWel1977]

@sdetweil I know… :pensive_face: :crying_face:

[sdetweil]

@mwel1977 i have had the fun battle with my employer over work done on my OWN TIME and OWN equipment… those intellectual property agreements are ‘challenging’

[bhepler]

@sdetweil - Indeed. Knowledge you gain from your job that you use in your spare time is a tricky question legally. As usual, when lawyers get involved it gets complicated really quick.

Sigh.

You write sixteen apps and what do you get?
Another cycle of fixes and an update to Git.
St. Linus don’t you text me 'cuz I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company GitHub.

[sdetweil]

@bhepler yep… even knowledge developed on your own time and equip, unrelated to work business is ‘fun’ to work thru… (not!)

[shbatm]

Staying away from the implications of installing on your corporate computer…

Try Debian for Linux Subsystem for Windows if you use Windows 10, you can install it from the Windows Store.

EDIT:
To use the store app you have to enable the WSL subsystem first by following the guide.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
Afterward just install the “Debian GNU/Linux” app from the windows store.