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setup windows 8 #92

Closed gsk7757 closed 4 years ago

gsk7757 commented 4 years ago

Hello, I was wondering if bash can be used on windows 8 computer? Thanks, Shiva

ialbert commented 4 years ago

It would only work as a VirtualBox approach

https://www.virtualbox.org/

but that is not something I would recommend to beginners. It is a bit more complicated.

gsk7757 commented 4 years ago

Thanks Dr. Albert. May I know what would be the best platform to get started? would it be a windows with Ubuntu or a Mac with Linux?

ialbert commented 4 years ago

The best platforms are Apple Macs. They are a type of Unix so no Linux needs to be installed on them.

In addition, the quality of the hardware and usability is also the best.

gsk7757 commented 4 years ago

Also, would you please let me know the minimum hardware requirement needed to run basic analysis?

ialbert commented 4 years ago

Your priority should be to learn and for that any computer will work. I use a Macbook Air for all coding you can learn and develop any analysis on a laptop. Running full analyses always depend on many factors, consider that a bacterial genome is three orders of magnitude smaller than a human genome, and there many other considerations. Once you learn how to run analyses you'll also gain some understanding on what systems you might need to do full analyses.

gsk7757 commented 4 years ago

Thanks a lot for your quick responses.