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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 komali2 »

sz4kerto wrote: post #71
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…

The font rendering is great. https://i.imgur.com/VVtLVfs.png

How'd you get that setup?

EDIT: ah just saw that you have your .bashrc in that image, thanks!

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

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Post by swinglock »

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…

wsltty works alright. There's room for improvement for sure.

https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

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

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Post by komali2 »

zadjii wrote: post #64
simooooo wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the same issue. Thought I was missing something. Luminous green and dark blue. :(

This is the dialog box you want: http://imgur.com/pwzwjZu Lets you actually make things readable - even pretty if you care to.

I never understood that dialog. Like the first 4 radio buttons seem to indicate there are only 4 values you can change, but then there's like 15 colored boxes in a horizontal line under that? I don't get it.

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

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Post by komali2 »

anonymfus wrote: post #80
komali2 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't necessarily make it easy to turn off all the weird ad-type-stuff, but they don't make it impossible either. A quick tour through settings on install can get rid of it all. There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. You have…

>There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. That was fixed in Creators Update: it now remembers uninstalled default applications.

I'm not 100% on this, but I'm fairly certain I wiped and reinstalled Windows on my surface after the creator's update, and I still had this issue.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

anonymfus wrote: post #80
komali2 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't necessarily make it easy to turn off all the weird ad-type-stuff, but they don't make it impossible either. A quick tour through settings on install can get rid of it all. There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. You have…

>There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. That was fixed in Creators Update: it now remembers uninstalled default applications.

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

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Post by monocasa »

tdb7893 wrote: post #88
sidcool wrote: post #42

I missed the Windows 10 free upgrade and now regretting it.

I really like most of windows 10. My main complaint is the start menu, I have yet to figure out how I'm supposed to use it

I use it the same way I use Spotlight on mac and gnome-do on Ubuntu. I press a key-combo and it gives me a prompt to start typing a few characters that'll probably take me to what I'm looking for.

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

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Post by Svenskunganka »

tdb7893 wrote: post #88
sidcool wrote: post #42

I missed the Windows 10 free upgrade and now regretting it.

I really like most of windows 10. My main complaint is the start menu, I have yet to figure out how I'm supposed to use it

To me it seems like you're mostly supposed to use Cortana search. They've taken the same approach as macOS and Ubuntu it seems.

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

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Post by twblalock »

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.

It was enough to get me to try it. I like it generally, once it's configured properly.

Using Windows to write software that runs on Ubuntu servers is not really much harder than using a Mac to do the same thing. You have to use a VM either way.

By the way, I like Powershell so much I installed it on my Macbook Pro.

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

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Post by city41 »

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.

I was in that camp. I thought WSL would make me a Windows user, but in the end I find just using Linux to be much simpler and better.

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

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Post by electrotype »

komali2 wrote: post #89
electrotype wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I had to test a couple of variations before being happy because the same colors are used in all types of terminal (I use regular cmd and Bash). Sometimes one color is great in one type of terminal but is clashing with another color, for a particular use case, in the other terminal!

http://i.imgur.com/9Dx79vq.png

(By the way, there is a color picker when you click a color)

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