Their calculator Windows 10 ported to Linux and can be installed from the Canonical Snap Store.
In March 2019, Microsoft open sourced the Windows 10 Calculator and invited developers to contribute to its development applications.
Using the Uno platform, a toolcase open source for creating cross-platform applications, developers have ported the Windows 10 Calculator (calc.exe) to Linux under the name “Uno Calculator”.
Below you can see the Windows 10 application running on Windows on the left and Ubuntu on the right.
So if you are using the Ubuntu distribution and want to install Uno Calculator, you can do so through the Snap Store using the following command:
[pastacode manual=”snap%20install%20uno-calculator” provider=”manual” lang=”php”/] Once installed, run “uno-calculator” to launch the application from surface desktop of Ubuntu or from whatever desktop you are using.
Although the Ubuntu distribution already has a calculator application, Uno Calculator shows us the power of multi-platform tools.
Using these tools, developers can develop applications on one platform and using the same codebase, and port them to other platforms, such as Windows, Linux, macOS, and mobile devices.
As Linux grows in popularity, and Microsoft does not seem to be as hostile as it once was, we will probably see more Windows applications ported to Linux to entice users to change operating systems.
