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

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Post by nickcox »

throwaway8941 wrote: post #50
samsaga2 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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 Windo…

>I don't like PowerShell, it is too verbose. alias >Intel Graphics drivers has a lot of bugs They suck everywhere. I've had nothing but problems with HD4600 on Linux. Frequent video player crashes, kernel lockups, glitches, the whole shebang. >- ClearType has been improved but Linux ... font aliasing is a lot better. I have the opposite experience. Depends on your display I guess. >I would like to remove the task bar…

> alias

Right. And it ships with sensible aliases for pretty much everything right out of the box as well as excellent completion.

Don't really get the 'too verbose' argument at all.

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

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Post by valleyjo »

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…

I think it’s a combination. Apple is getting worse and microsoft is getting better.

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

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Post by dole »

ctvo wrote: post #80

am I the only person who has trouble imagining what a font will look like from just a row of alphanumeric characters? I'm always wishing for a screenshot of it used in complex editor situations when these posts pop up.

No, being just a little unsatisfied with Consolas, I thought this might be the answer, until I loaded it up in VSCode. A little too serif-y.

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

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

samsaga2 wrote: post #36
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 Windo…

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

What does windows really need a package manager _for_, that Chocolatey and nuget are not enough for?

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

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Post by pstadler »

pvinis wrote: post #78
teilo wrote: post #77

I wish some thought would be given to alternate widths for monospaced fonts. Once I got used to the narrow width of Iosevka[†], all these other admittedly wonderful terminal/code fonts lost their appeal to me. Everything else just looks fat now. [†] https://typeof.net/Iosevka

I completely agree! I came to Iosevka for the looks, but now I don't want to leave because of the width. :D

Oh boy, same here. Glad I found some soulmates! Input Mono Compressed comes close though.

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

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Post by WorldMaker »

pjc50 wrote: post #56
samsaga2 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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 Windo…

Windows drivers being bad is the fault of the hardware manufacturer; at least they provide some drivers! Ironically windows has had a kind of package manager for years in the form of MSI and the "add/remove programs" system. It just didn't wire this up to a repository. NTFS performance is becoming a serious problem. That and process spawning are the two things that Linux systems inherently do much faster. The tendenc…

> Ironically windows has had a kind of package manager for years in the form of MSI and the "add/remove programs" system. It just didn't wire this up to a repository.

They added a repository, they call it the Microsoft Store. In Windows 10 you can install Win32 and even command line apps from it. It has a lot of what I need at this point: Python, Inkscape, Paint.NET, VLC, iCloud Drive, WSL Linux distros, etc. I haven't used Chocolatey in years, because most of what I had been using Chocolatey for is in the Store at this point (or I didn't like how Chocolatey was installing them anyway, there were a lot of dumb PowerShell install scripts in the Chocolatey repository).

It would be great to have even more applications in the Store or as MSIX sideload packages (with update support) instead of old MSI/EXE installers, but that's a developer project that takes upgrade/installer rebuild time (as opposed to just about anyone just writing some silly PowerShell script or another and uploading it to Chocolatey).

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

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Post by WorldMaker »

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.

Unfortunately, it's unlikely that Microsoft has the means to open source Consolas as it (along with most of the rest of the Office C-Family fonts) was a commission from / commercial partnership with Monotype (company/foundry; albeit I think it was Ascender at the time but M&A since then it's definitely Monotype that owns the commercial rights today).

Commercial licensing info: http://catalog.monotype.com/family/microsoft-corporation/con...

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