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vim?
You can already run vim from the msys git distribution
There is also a native Vim, compiled with Visual Studio: http://tuxproject.de/projects/vim
Ubuntu on Windows
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Re: Ubuntu on Windows
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Can windows 10 apt-get install/run most/all the x/gtk base apps apt-get build from source those apps. ? If so, I will consider switch.
No. No GUI applications (currently, and no announced future support... and I wouldn't bank on them doing it).
not yet, and probably not likely, but if you're interested in running winders on a Linux i have x2go instance for testing and it works quite well.
I use an internal gb network though, so your experience will vary.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#503It's time that people stopped using the term 'Windows' for this operating system. The Free Software Foundation created the bulk of the userspace, under terms that allow anyone to share, modify and fork the programs, and then Microsoft came along with the one last missing piece of the puzzle - the kernel, and completed the full operating system, which, to be frank, users find completely unusable and worthless without…
How is the top comment a bike-shedding comment? Downvoted because this shouldn't be top - irrespective of whether or not you have a valid point.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
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Let's be honest here. Does this change make some developers actually even consider to change their OS X/Linux Desktops to Windows? Yeah it is really cool thing that we can finally use windows cmd like the terminal on unix systems however: - What about lack of all the Linux/OS X GUI software? - What about lack of all the UNIX OS features? - What about all those billions and billions of Windows malware, viruses, adware…
If I was still stuck using an OS X box, I would definitely switch. If I was using Linux, I wouldn't. I've been forced into developing using Windows for the last few years, and for my use case (SSH to remote server to develop there), it's not that bad. There are some annoyances, but from a usage perspective, Windows 10 is actually really nice. Getting native terminal and SSH[1] support actually handles a bug chunk of…
> What about the lack of windows software on those platforms? It goes both ways.
i miss absolutely zero windows software.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#505I hope this will make porting Linux application to windows a breeze ( fork, and other syscalls that do not have equivalent windows APIs).
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#506I wonder if this means that I can natively ssh into Windows via this method. Anyone know if daemon/services are permitted eg sshd?
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#507This is good news for developers with Macs, and it has nothing to do with an option to switch platforms.
By doing this, Microsoft are legitimising bash as an OS feature for "developers who like unix". This has two effects on Apple:
1. It means they will be less likely to remove their bash CLI from a future OSX / iOS hybrid workstation OS nightmare that we all don't like to think about.
2. They will have to compete with Microsoft for customers who are "developers who like unix". Competition is good for us, the users.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#508It's time that people stopped using the term 'Windows' for this operating system. The Free Software Foundation created the bulk of the userspace, under terms that allow anyone to share, modify and fork the programs, and then Microsoft came along with the one last missing piece of the puzzle - the kernel, and completed the full operating system, which, to be frank, users find completely unusable and worthless without…
How is the top comment a bike-shedding comment? Downvoted because this shouldn't be top - irrespective of whether or not you have a valid point.
It's humor, not actual bike-shedding. Was that not obvious?
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
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conhost (the black box that typically runs cmd.exe) is a terribly shitty terminal emulator. My biggest gripe with Windows has been the lack of a decent pseudoconsome system that would allow an ecosystem of terminal emulators to developer, as one has for POSIX-ish systems.
What about ConEmu? Works well for me, I especially like the Quake-style dropdown terminal option... https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu
ConEmu looks nice; it came out after I switched from Windows to Linux, so I've never tried it. I like the idea of hooking the console API functions; before I stopped using Windows, I was working independently on a similar API-hooking system that talked to the Cygwin pty layer instead of to a custom terminal.
With a real pty, you'd be able to use any Windows console program with mintty, sshd, Emacs term-mode, or whatever else you wanted, transparently. I regret not having a chance to finish that work.
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> I grew up a Windows user, and switched to OS X because of the unix-like command line environment that more closely matched the servers I was working with in my job environments. Out of curiosity, why would you not just go with a Linux desktop for that?
cause youre pretentious...and linux "sucks" and every laptop comes with windows installed anyway
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