Drawbridge is what powers SQL server for linux and is a full windows subsystem but is locked down.
Windows for Linux Nerds
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Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
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Tablets are still a thing? Large phones and Laptops is what my bubble uses.
The vendors aren't doing themselves any favours. I'm typing this on a Samsung Tab A with a bluetooth keyboard. It's actually a pretty slick form-factor -- 9.7" screen, 1024 x 768 dispaly, 128 GB additional storage, and converts from a deskable or lappable landscape to portrait in under a second. Charge lasts all day. The basic concept of a mobile device whose display is separable from its keyboard is _wonderful_. Lap…
There used to be a very good terminal environment app on Linux, far better than termux. It was called Terminal IDE, and it was basically a full Debian bootstrap. Unfortunately, it was never updated for lollipop or later, possibly because of pie/technical reasons.
Personally, I've given up on using Linux from Android. I'd love to, but it's next to impossible, you'll run into other issues you haven't even seen yet; for example, my phone doesn't even have ext support for the sdcard; I'm stuck using fat32 for a 32gb partition. You also can't mount a network drive with fuse and expect to access it from another app.
If you want a software keyboard, use hacker's keyboard--it does a full keyboard layout with alt/Ctrl/other keyboard keys. If you want a physical keyboard, you shouldn't use a keyboard case anyways, a full size keyboard is far easier to use. You can get a microusb numpad-less keyboard for around $10-15 online. Alternatively, just get a full 100+-key Bluetooth keyboard
If you want updates, buy Google and/or deal with unofficial community updates if you can get them, because only Google updates their devices. I'm stuck on lollipop because Verizon has decided not to release Marshmallow in the US (VZW Moto E2 has MM in EU only)
The adb backup/restore commands may also be of some limited help to you. (They use archives that aren't openable, but they do work)
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#363TL;DR "Here's how you pull the power cable, in case you forgot"
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#364I totally agree with his points about how terrible the Windows console is. Scrolling past the current line into blank space makes no sense. Having two identical settings menus (Defaults and Properties) that affect the current terminal vs every terminal makes no sense. Having no color theme support makes no sense. As far as third party terminals go, ConEmu is pretty good but crashes a lot for me. I don't see why I sho…
As a Windows developer for last year I can see very big leap in terminal usability. Nowadays you can reset it as you Wish. Hotkeys works as expected. Muse integration much much better.
Try latest Insider builds. Console nowadays mush better and faster then ever in Windows
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#365A lot of snarky comments here, but I've been using Ubuntu shell on Win 10 for the past few weeks and it's really fantastic. Way faster than a VM and much more compatible than cygwin or msys.
More snarky than usual, i don't know why. "why not just" or "just use" kind of comments that you see more in reddit. Even someone recommended an Electron alternative, on HN! the #1 Electron hater community. Interesting.
> "why not just" or "just use" kind of comments that you see more in reddit
Honestly I think this attitude is much more common on HN than reddit
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
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I switched at the beginning of college (oddly enough, before I decided to add a computer science degree or had ever written a line of code), and I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. I've stuck with ThinkPads for hardware compatibility, and I've always been 10x more productive on my machine than anyone I know. On top of that, I've been able to keep 90% of the same habits and config while taking my mac…
Because some of us have been spoiled with development environments like Smalltalk, Common Lisp IDEs, Delphi, ... with Visual Studio being one of the best. I remember following KDevelop progress hoping that one day it could eventually match what I already had available in Borland and MS tools.
Thanks for the perspective: I haven't heard VS given as a reason before. It's probably a consequence of the bubbles I've been in, but for every dev I've ever met (incl everyone in my CS program), there wasn't any advantage to Windows for development and disadvantages everywhere you looked. This may be a consequence of the devs I know (esp the good ones) skewing towards having a CS background (though obviously most of them aren't computer scientists in industry).
(Of course none of this applies to personal computing, where I still don't understand Windows usage beyond the need for niche software).
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
The vendors aren't doing themselves any favours. I'm typing this on a Samsung Tab A with a bluetooth keyboard. It's actually a pretty slick form-factor -- 9.7" screen, 1024 x 768 dispaly, 128 GB additional storage, and converts from a deskable or lappable landscape to portrait in under a second. Charge lasts all day. The basic concept of a mobile device whose display is separable from its keyboard is _wonderful_. Lap…
There used to be a very good terminal environment app on Linux, far better than termux. It was called Terminal IDE, and it was basically a full Debian bootstrap. Unfortunately, it was never updated for lollipop or later, possibly because of pie/technical reasons. Personally, I've given up on using Linux from Android. I'd love to, but it's next to impossible, you'll run into other issues you haven't even seen yet; for…
I'm well aware of external storage limitations.
Google/Nexus devices have no damned onboard storage. That's a fail. I don't do cloud.
The lack of usable / findable docs on this stuff is another PITA.
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Those doing games, yes. Those of us doing movies are mostly on Linux. Lots of sci-viz folks are also on Linux.
Really? I thought video/post-production people were mostly on Macs these days. What are the standard software stacks for doing FX?
We're getting off-topic here, but see http://www.vfxplatform.com/
RHEL/Centos is probably the most common distro used.
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The linux subsystem for window is way faster than Cygwin (and any VM), I just tested grep on both platforms for a big text file (500MB) and cygwin-grep takes 2.630s while linux-subsytem-grep takes 0.395s
I don't think grep is the best example since they could be different implementations of grep.
I have seen similar differences in other programs as well (tail, head)
Re: Windows for Linux Nerds
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Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ I think the linux desktop user experience has improved exponentially over the last few years, you should give it another shot.
Nice UIs won't fix people's broadcom wireless cards.
I even have problems with Intel card from time to time.