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rsync problems on windows as can't use ssh key easily - yes I know this should be trivial.

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The <i>expo laptop</i> uses <a href="https://www.debian.org/intro/about">Debian</a> with the <a href="https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-cinnamon-desktop-environment-on-debian/">Cinnamon</a> interface, but pretty much any Linux system works fine. This handbook does assume that you are using apt - the Debian package manager - which is good for all Debian-derived Linuxes such as <a href="https://ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>. Old, slow machines without much memory can be very effective with <a href="https://xubuntu.org/">Xubuntu/xfce</a>.
<li>Windows machines can do everything needed, but some useful software has no Windows version and you will need to find your own equivalents. There are also dangerous 'gotchas' to look out for because the file-naming system is different. Do use Linux if you can.
<li>Windows machines can do almost everything needed (rsync is a problem), but some useful software has no Windows version and you will need to find your own equivalents. There are also dangerous 'gotchas' to look out for because the file-naming system is different. Do use Linux if you can.
<li>WSL: the Windows Subsystem for Linux. The first release of this didn't do the ssh key exchange process easily. The <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10">2019 WSL2 release</a> includes a complete Linux kernel. If you want to use this, then please do - and then write the handbook documentation too. But beware that it has <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-index">two different modes</a> which behave differently.
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<p>On a Windows machine you will need to configure pageant (the putty authentication agent)
to <a href="https://blog.shvetsov.com/2010/03/making-pageant-automatically-load-keys.html">run at startup to load your key</a>. Note that you are loading your <em>private</em> key, the .ppk file, into pageant and that this key never leaves your laptop.
<p>The above gets TortoiseHg and the command-line PuTTY tools (ssd, sftp, pscp) running, but doesn't get Cygwin rsync working. You might like to try <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23517023/rsync-from-windows-to-linux-using-puttys-pagent-authentication">this</a> (untested).
<p>Full illustrated instructions:<img src="https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/favicon.ico" width=64 hspace="20" align="right">
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