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

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Post by Karunamon » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:42 PM UTC

jcrawfordor wrote: post #19

nbevans wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?

I think people have a bit of a popular misconception about the Explorer advertising thing. What's happening is that MS is adding a banner to Explorer advertising paid OneDrive subscriptions. I totally agree that it's massively inappropriate, but I do think that most people are imagining third-party advertising which is not what's happening - a lot of people might not consider the current situation to be an "ad" neces…

I don't particular care who is trying to sell me shit in the file manager, I care that shit is being sold in the file manager.

In an operating system I paid $100 for. Unacceptable.

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

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Post by sidcool » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:42 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by jagger27 » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:43 PM UTC

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…

My current hack is to install an X client and forward a single gnome-terminal window. With a bit of scripting it's pretty seamless.

For all of X's warts, its networking protocol works just as intended for this kind of use case.

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

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Post by jclos » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:44 PM UTC

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 run it in another terminal than the standard cmd. I've got mine running through cmder (http://cmder.net/) which is just a preconfigured ConEmu (https://conemu.github.io/) with some additional stuff out of the box.

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

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Post by graton » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:44 PM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #42

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

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/accessibility/windows10upgra...

Still free to upgrade

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

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Post by godmodus » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:45 PM UTC

orf wrote: post #6

godmodus wrote: post #3

Hope for fixes for stuff like npm, too.

Fixes for what, specifically?

Npm is broken for example, it's apath exception when it looks into the os api. It expects linux defaults. The npm guys are trying to f8x it last i saw. Shame the module causes that. Itll trinkle down to many other Tools.

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

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Post by oridecon » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:46 PM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #42

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

You can still activate W10 using 7/8 keys and most of the other methods still work. At least that's what people say on /r/windows10.

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

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Post by austinsharp » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:46 PM UTC

sidcool wrote: post #42

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

I've heard you can activate Windows 10 with a key from 7 or 8.1 [1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/windo...

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

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Post by filoleg » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:46 PM UTC

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 managed to run it under cmder, and from there it all went nicely; installed fish and other stuff no issues.

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

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Post by iaml » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:47 PM UTC

nbevans wrote: post #8

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'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?

I recently did a fresh install of creators update on my laptop. Not only does it have crapware bundled that I had to uninstall, it has placeholders for apps from store which is literally advertisement. I also got edge ads when I was downloading other browser. I preemptively disabled all other "suggestions", but saying that windows 10 doesn't have ads is a blatant lie.