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Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by throwaway8941 »

29athrowaway wrote: post #7
tony wrote: post #4

Microsoft is just on a roll when it comes to open source. - Windows Terminal is pretty solid, and fast. Dare I say, nearing rxvt-unicode/kitty speed. There are some remaining terminal corruption with tmux + vim sessions, but soon enough it'll be replacing hyper/conemu for me. - WSL 2 alleviates file system issues that plagued WSL. I recently wiped debian off my Thinkpad because there's no point, I get everything I ne…

Windows can be convenient, but what is the cost of your convenience? - Fewer hardware manufacturers will publish drivers for other OSes. - More computer manufacturers will sell computers with Windows preinstalled (and other preinstalled software that you will likely not want in your computer), making your computer more expensive and slower, and sometimes, less secure (search: eDellRoot). - Fewer game publishers will…

Nah. I, for one, am fed up with feeling as a third-class citizen every single day.

I recently moved back to Windows after using Linux exclusively for five years. My opinion will probably prove unpopular here, but here goes: I have seen close to zero progress in making Linux a better desktop operating system in all this time, while MS has been doing solid work in making Windows a more development friendly environment.

I get this feeling that the community keeps reinventing the wheel every few years instead of making existing things more polished.

Linux is improving so fast it's really hard to keep up with it, but I'd say 99% of this progress is being made in server and embedded contexts. Billions are being poured into this area, while desktop is being pushed forward by like two guys working in their spare time.

I'll most likely wipe Linux from dual-boot after WSL 2 gets its first stable release.

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by throwaway8941 »

throwaway13249 wrote: post #29
scalanewaccount wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seriously considering moving back to Windows from Arch. I miss some software. Can you give some downsides of WSL2 so I know you're being impartial (I am) and to help me make a decision. I wasted a few days with WSL1 and don't want to repeat that.

Just minor issues: You need to be on the insider programmer which forces telemetry and means you have a PITA windows style upgrade every other week (and the nagging associated with it). Whilst you can read /mnt/c/ you can't read virtual file systems such as Google drive stream /mnt/g/ is just empty. You need to do a bit of fuckery like pinning your ssh-agent to a known file socket and test this in your bash/zsh start…

>None of the intellij ecosystem

If you're doing C or C++ development, CLion does support WSL compilers/debuggers.

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by throwaway8941 »

guessmyname wrote: post #10
degski wrote: post #8

Did anyone look at some code in Visual Studio with this font. You'll be surprised how `!=` looks like with this font (C++), it's pretty cool [and I've never seen anything like it before]!

> You'll be surprised how `!=` looks like with this font […] For anyone curious, you can see it here [1] (check the last character) . [1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/ma...

Not the best decision I think, too much resemblance to the division assignment operator:

    x /= 10;

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by jstarks »

throwaway13249 wrote: post #30
throwaway13249 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just minor issues: You need to be on the insider programmer which forces telemetry and means you have a PITA windows style upgrade every other week (and the nagging associated with it). Whilst you can read /mnt/c/ you can't read virtual file systems such as Google drive stream /mnt/g/ is just empty. You need to do a bit of fuckery like pinning your ssh-agent to a known file socket and test this in your bash/zsh start…

Need to set max memory in wslconfig too - not so well documented - otherwise your VM will just balloon to fill up all your RAM and windows and windows app will start swapping

We are working on solving that. No promises that we will solve it completely the first time, but it should get better soon.

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by dstaley »

nitinreddy88 wrote: post #9

After long time, I found a font which is really eye soothing for windows terminal. If Powerline support gets added, it will be one of the best.

Scott Hanselman actually published a video on using Cascadia with Powerline! [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/oHhiMf_6exY

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

#36

Post by samsaga2 »

tony wrote: post #4

Microsoft is just on a roll when it comes to open source. - Windows Terminal is pretty solid, and fast. Dare I say, nearing rxvt-unicode/kitty speed. There are some remaining terminal corruption with tmux + vim sessions, but soon enough it'll be replacing hyper/conemu for me. - WSL 2 alleviates file system issues that plagued WSL. I recently wiped debian off my Thinkpad because there's no point, I get everything I ne…

- Windows Terminal is nice but the windows command line is not. I don't like PowerShell, it is too verbose.

- WSL 2 is not stable and it is only available for the Windows Insider program. And it does not have X.

- Windows 10 drivers sucks. For example, Intel Graphics drivers has a lot of bugs.

- ClearType has been improved but Linux and Mac font aliasing is a lot better.

- I cannot upgrade my laptop to the last Windows version because something about the seller. The Windows Update does not give me the option.

- Windows really need a package manager. And not, Chocolatey is not enough.

- Windows desktop is nice but is not for me. I would like to remove the task bar and install something like i3wm.

- NTFS is getting old and it is very slow if you have a lot of small files.

Windows is nice to a light development. But if you really need a complete solution you have to search for alternatives.

PD: I have nothing against vscode :).

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by rits »

throwaway13249 wrote: post #29
scalanewaccount wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seriously considering moving back to Windows from Arch. I miss some software. Can you give some downsides of WSL2 so I know you're being impartial (I am) and to help me make a decision. I wasted a few days with WSL1 and don't want to repeat that.

Just minor issues: You need to be on the insider programmer which forces telemetry and means you have a PITA windows style upgrade every other week (and the nagging associated with it). Whilst you can read /mnt/c/ you can't read virtual file systems such as Google drive stream /mnt/g/ is just empty. You need to do a bit of fuckery like pinning your ssh-agent to a known file socket and test this in your bash/zsh start…

If I got you right about ssh-agent, there is a console frontend https://www.funtoo.org/Keychain.

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

#38

Post by unhammer »

degski wrote: post #8

Did anyone look at some code in Visual Studio with this font. You'll be surprised how `!=` looks like with this font (C++), it's pretty cool [and I've never seen anything like it before]!

Someone wants C to look like Haskell?

(as always, the Haskell users have taken it quite a bit further: https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig/#hasklig--ligatures-for-code )

Re: Show HN: Cascadia Code, a Font for Windows Terminal and VSCode

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Post by thefz »

m0zg wrote: post #3

MS can't really win against its own Consolas. If you haven't tried Consolas, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. Would be cool if MS opensourced that, if they can.

The font I always fall back to in Visual Studio after trying others. It's so clear.
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