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New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Post by petetnt »

komali2 wrote: post #35

Anybody manage to make their Bash/WSL actually look good? I've got it just running in, what, cmd I guess? I don't know. Anyway it's fuckugly. I had to just set all the fonts to white on a black background because otherwise the returns from npm installs and git status and stuff would be unreadable deep blue. Don't get me wrong, I love using it, but it doesn't beat the aesthetics of a terminal on a mac or a nicely conf…

I use zsh with Hyper (https://hyper.is/) using "atom-dark" (https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperterm-atom-dark) theme and it's quite decent sans the hideous text background colors:

http://i.imgur.com/l4Oi2up.png

Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Post by shmed »

oridecon wrote: post #37
smacktoward wrote: post #5

Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…

Since everything and everyone is collecting user data, it would be fair to leave the starter/home/"cloud" editions as it is. But damn, if I'm going to pay for my OS I want ZERO data collection and the option to never use stuff like Cortana (opt-in). And if that's too much to ask, why don't they release a more expensive Windows 10 Tinfoil Edition? You would still have to trust MS but at least you would have the legal…

Get the Enterprise Edition and you'll get full control on what data is leaving your machine.

Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Post by oridecon »

shmed wrote: post #82
oridecon wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since everything and everyone is collecting user data, it would be fair to leave the starter/home/"cloud" editions as it is. But damn, if I'm going to pay for my OS I want ZERO data collection and the option to never use stuff like Cortana (opt-in). And if that's too much to ask, why don't they release a more expensive Windows 10 Tinfoil Edition? You would still have to trust MS but at least you would have the legal…

Get the Enterprise Edition and you'll get full control on what data is leaving your machine.

That's just not true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12959097

Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Post by moogly »

mcdirty wrote: post #54
orf wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fixes for what, specifically?

I initially had problems with max character length for paths. When npm installed dependencies really deep down, Windows became unable to move or delete such files. I think it's been fixed with Yarn's flat dependency structure, which I think npm has also gone or is going to in the near future.

That change was made in NPM3, before Yarn was publicly released.

Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Post by Jach »

shepardrtc wrote: post #21
smacktoward wrote: post #5

Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…

> It feels like there's different groups inside MS that [...] Nadella either isn't willing or isn't able to wrangle them into all pulling in the same direction That's exactly how it is.

As illustrated here: http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/

Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Post by smichel17 »

shepardrtc wrote: post #21
smacktoward wrote: post #5

Microsoft is so frustrating. On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago. And steps like this show that they're not just addressing that at a shallow level, but are willing to dig deep to make it happen, which is sincerely encouraging. But then on the other hand, they insist on loading Windows 10 up with privac…

> It feels like there's different groups inside MS that [...] Nadella either isn't willing or isn't able to wrangle them into all pulling in the same direction That's exactly how it is.

Know someone who works at Microsoft, can confirm.

Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Post by komali2 »

electrotype wrote: post #51
komali2 wrote: post #35

Anybody manage to make their Bash/WSL actually look good? I've got it just running in, what, cmd I guess? I don't know. Anyway it's fuckugly. I had to just set all the fonts to white on a black background because otherwise the returns from npm installs and git status and stuff would be unreadable deep blue. Don't get me wrong, I love using it, but it doesn't beat the aesthetics of a terminal on a mac or a nicely conf…

I use it with ConEmu and I like my colors... Everything is configurable. http://i.imgur.com/BHDxdOJ.png

Nice! Was that hard to set up?

Re: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

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Post by manboymale »

moomin wrote: post #76
gigatexal wrote: post #17

They can do this all they want but no amount of linux in windows is going to get me back to using it on my main home desktop. I have no choice at work (an all MS stack: c# and sqlserver) but yeah I'll just stick to VMs, docker, or linux on bare-metal. I get the latest kernels, the ability to run anything in the nix ecosystem without arbitrary drawbacks. *Arbitrary is harsh, they did a lot of heavy lifting to get Wind…

I think there's a fair number of Mac users/developers who are currently looking around. WSL might be enough to swing it.

At my office the general consensus is "hate using the Mac but development is easier on a unix based machine" and our IT department doesn't have a process for securely preparing Linux machines.

The Fedora support definitely has me excited. Will try it out on my home computer before making the real jump.

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