Awesome Windows

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Post by iKenshu » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 8:30 PM UTC

Awesome Windows
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Re: Awesome Windows

#2

Post by lcfcjs » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 8:45 PM UTC

This is pretty neat. Is there a Mac equivalent?

Re: Awesome Windows

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Post by pmoriarty » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 8:51 PM UTC

Cygwin is not mentioned on there. I'd rate that critical to make Windows even moderately bearable. The main problem, of course, is that Cygwin is way too slow, but I'd rather suffer that live without it.

Re: Awesome Windows

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Post by localcdn » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 8:55 PM UTC

Time for a GNU/Linux version

Re: Awesome Windows

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Post by vgh » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 8:57 PM UTC

localcdn wrote: post #4

Time for a GNU/Linux version

Sure. That's at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/

If you're unfamiliar, this isn't particular to any distro necessarily, although yes it is largely. It's just a fantastic resource for documentation on all kinds of packages and system configuration.

Re: Awesome Windows

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Post by jlgaddis » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

vgh wrote: post #5

localcdn wrote: post #4

Time for a GNU/Linux version

Sure. That's at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ If you're unfamiliar, this isn't particular to any distro necessarily, although yes it is largely. It's just a fantastic resource for documentation on all kinds of packages and system configuration.

FWIW, to others reading this thread, if you run Linux the Arch Linux Wiki is an amazing resource you should check out, regardless of what distribution you run.

Some of the info there is, of course, Arch-specific, but most of it can be applied to any other Linux distribution.

Re: Awesome Windows

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Post by jongalloway2 » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 9:00 PM UTC

localcdn wrote: post #4

Time for a GNU/Linux version

https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-linux

You can look up all the awesome lists here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

Re: Awesome Windows

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Post by jongalloway2 » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 9:02 PM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #3

Cygwin is not mentioned on there. I'd rate that critical to make Windows even moderately bearable. The main problem, of course, is that Cygwin is way too slow, but I'd rather suffer that live without it.

What are your main uses for Cygwin as opposed to just using WSL / Bash on Windows?

Re: Awesome Windows

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Post by hibbelig » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 9:08 PM UTC

I'm surprised about the zsh mention. It seems to run under Cygwin mostly, right? I guess under MSYS2, as well. But there is nothing that mentions this specialty.

Re: Awesome Windows

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Post by pmoriarty » Mon, Aug 28, 2017, 9:09 PM UTC

jongalloway2 wrote: post #8

pmoriarty wrote: post #3

Cygwin is not mentioned on there. I'd rate that critical to make Windows even moderately bearable. The main problem, of course, is that Cygwin is way too slow, but I'd rather suffer that live without it.

What are your main uses for Cygwin as opposed to just using WSL / Bash on Windows?

Cygwin's not just bash (in fact, you don't even have to use bash in Cygwin -- you can use zsh, for instance). There are thousands of packages in Cygwin's package manager, and you can also compile your own using gcc or another compiler you can get through Cygwin.