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Are there any Windows-exclusive programs you use?
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I have a Windows computer in the basement to run one program: The virtual cycling platform Zwift.
But someone made a docker image for it, so even that is tenuous. I fired it up on the Linux system I'm typing this on, and it worked fine.
I'm not very familiar with Docker and the like, though. What if the person that created it decides he's no longer interested in maintaining it?
Don't worry. The chances of zwift having major updates and breaking anything is small.
I'm mostly joking, but they've been around for a decade and not a ton of progress to show for it
They broke the coffee break with last week's update.... Sigh.
Overall I really like zwift, but sometimes I just want to slap them. Like the newer teleport feature for the robopacers. Great idea. But if you look at the menu in the app, the groups are highest power to lowest power, but then within the groups, it's low to high. What were they thinking?!