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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 KirinDave »

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…

Okay. And while I appreciate you have your reasons for your decision to pick an OS based on your use cases and hardware...

Why did you bring this comment here? Is your hope to convince other people, or to reaffirm your decision to yourself?

It seems off topic.

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

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Post by no_wizard »

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…

I thought the Enterprise edition had none of these problems. Might be worth grabbing that instead?

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

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Post by EvilTerran »

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 unpinned everything, and just operate it entirely by keyboard: hit the windows key, type the first few characters of the program name, hit enter. I find I don't even need to look at it most of the time.

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

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Post by tejinderss »

electrotype wrote: post #68

The problem with WSL is that it's young so some integrations are still not perfect. For example, the integration with VSCode : https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/25033 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/24967 But both teams, WSL and VSCode, are very, very responsive. I'm pretty sure in a couple of months everything will be fine.

Same reason why I am not making the switch. Whenever I have good integration of wsl python interpreter running in vscode, I will be a happy person

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

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Post by jrimbault »

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…

"Old" screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/luCEh2w.png

ConEmu

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

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Post by zadjii »

komali2 wrote: post #93
zadjii wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The 16 colors are the color table - these are the actual colors you want to change.

The selected box (of the 16) has it's values displayed on the right. Change those numbers to change the color's value.

The radio buttons select which of the 16 colors is the "default" for that setting. So you probably want to leave "Screen background" on black (the first color table entry) and you'd likely want to move "Screen Text" to white, the 16th entry. The popup colors are only really relevant for cmd.exe.

Yes, we're aware that dialog is garbage. I hate it to death. It's high on the backlog.

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

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Post by topranks »

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…

You can use Conemu, ConsoleZ or a number of other console applications for Windows with it.

As a network engineer it's almost useless to me, ping, traceroute, mtr etc don't work. Neither does ssh tunneling. No ssh server.

Still using Cygwin for those reasons.

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

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Post by vetinari »

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.

Unfortunately, not true anymore.
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