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I use Windows 10 Home on my laptop, so docker integration is a challenge, espescially running all the builds written in shell scripts won't run nicely on Ubuntu on Windows or MSYS2.

So I've had to fallback on installing ubuntu on virtualbox, with docker and gcloud-sdk. I've documented the steps below.

Get VirtualBox

Download VirtualBox

Install Ubuntu on VirtualBox

Get Xubuntu 16.04 ISO. Xubuntu is lightweight and provides a standard desktop. Ubuntu or other flavours should also work.

Download Xubuntu LTS

VirtualBox Guest Config

Config suggested for guest: 1. Min Disk: 30GB 2. RAM: 2GB 3. LVM Partitioning 4 …

My Ubuntu Linux Desktop

Let me introduce you to my desktop today. Its an Ubuntu Linux (version 7.0.4, codename "Feisty Fawn") system. I've been using this Ubuntu installation for a few months now, and I'm very happy with both the ease of use and power.

And it looks so good, here's a screen shot (click to enlarge).

If you are unfamiliar with Gnome Linux desktop, they you will notice some unique features:

1. Multiple panels(top & bottom)
2. There are 5 desktop pages (bottom right)
3. There's a host of applets added (like weather, mail, network etc) on the top panel …