This is brilliant. I might actually consider switching to Windows now. Both Arch and macOS have been getting on my nerves lately.
What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
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Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#72Why on that ping screenshot RTT to 127.0.0.1 is >2ms?
Don't know, probably some VM testing on their part but I just upgraded to Creators Update and here's my result:
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.098/0.109/0.131/0.012 ms
Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of resistance some will have to WSL will be old battle scars from Microsofts past behaviour. Microsoft have done a lot over the years to troll the Linux community. While many of the younger HN members will be familiar with the "new open source Microsoft" some of us oldies have had to endure IE breaking the web plus ActiveX / Silverlight and other MS web lockins. Comments like "open source is communism" from top…
I also remember the standardization process of OOXML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open... I also think their current strategy could be the one you describe. We're at the Embrace phase. It's not sure that Extend will follow but I wonder what it could look like. Maybe it will be something convenient you can do in Linux only if you're running it inside WSL. Given how Linux is used it should b…
It's named like this because it is a subsytem of the NT kernel (hence the Windows subsystem part) that implements Linux system calls to run Linux applications (hence the for Linux part).
Naming it the other way around ie Linux for Windows would imply that the Linux kernel is involved which is actually not the case at all.
Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#74Hats off to Rich, Russ, and the entire WSL team at Microsoft. Another excellent release. Your work here bringing Ubuntu and the open source world to the Windows ecosystem makes us very, VERY proud!
And an extra personal thank you for making Byobu work so well!
Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#75Windows Console folk: any chance of tabs in the official terminal?
Current Windows terminal options:
- ConEmu: mainly excellent but a little dated - eg, the active tab color is hard to distinguish but it can't be changed, apparently due to maintainer's insistence it works on Windows XP.
- Hyper: excellent but Ctrl C, Ctrl R etc broken in powershell.
Adding tabs to the Windows console makes more sense than have a third party create an entire console just to support tabs.
Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#76The inotify implementation looks very promising! Editing source files in a Windows-native IDE and having changes picked up by, say, node.js is a great workflow. I'm yet to try it out, but I wonder if the problems with editing files in the linux filesystem[0] is going to be an issue with this? [0]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...
Microsoft: I suspect this blog post is out of date and that, post creators update, this is now safe. If so, maybe you want to edit it?
Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#77>Upgrade In-Place ...though this may not result in an optimal instance. Wondering why such a disclaimer? Ubuntu apt upgrades are reliable. Or is it related to WSL? Anyway good job WSL team.
If you're asking why Microsoft's advice is to format and reinstall, well, consider who it's coming from.
I don't know about Canonical, but Red Hat at least recommend reinstalling over in-place upgrades too.
Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#78Still not any option to hide that ugly scrollbar and having unlimited buffer ? (like Gnome-Terminal)
The windows terminal is utter garbage compared to linux ones, but to be fair the linux ones have had rather longer to hone their products. Hopefully the Microsoft guys will keep on improving!
Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#79The inotify implementation looks very promising! Editing source files in a Windows-native IDE and having changes picked up by, say, node.js is a great workflow. I'm yet to try it out, but I wonder if the problems with editing files in the linux filesystem[0] is going to be an issue with this? [0]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...
It works, and really well at that! I've used it with everything from Webpack to Jekyll, and have had no problem over the last few months!
Re: What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
#80Windows Console folk: any chance of tabs in the official terminal? Current Windows terminal options: - ConEmu: mainly excellent but a little dated - eg, the active tab color is hard to distinguish but it can't be changed, apparently due to maintainer's insistence it works on Windows XP. - Hyper: excellent but Ctrl C, Ctrl R etc broken in powershell. Adding tabs to the Windows console makes more sense than have a thir…
This is a more modern wrapper around ConEmu: http://cmder.net