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I'm not sure why you feel like that, I switched back to Windows after ~1 year of using OSX, I wouldn't say its "miserable" there is really nothing I could do in
by kayone 11y ago
I'm not sure why you feel like that, I switched back to Windows after ~1 year of using OSX, I wouldn't say its "miserable" there is really nothing I could do in OSX's command line that can't do in windows.
- barbs 11y agoWhat is your Windows command-line environment? Plain CMD prompt or Cygwin? Or something else?
- kentt 11y agoI don't get agree with your parent, but I used cygwin when I was on Windows and it mostly does what you want if you just need basic command line tools. The major annoyances were packages were limited, compiling anything was generally a disaster and file permissions between linux/windows are a mess. I happily used it everyday though.
- gutnor 11y agoPowershell is very powerful and for windows it beats cygwin/mingw. Not quite sure how it measure against Linux shells running on Linux, but Microsoft has really made a proper shell for windows, too bad it looks so different. Obviously if you work in a cross-platform environment, cygwin/mingw is still the only thing that will provide you some sort of consistency in your workflow on Windows machines.
- kayone 11y agoI use git bash, with conemu, to be honest I don't do anything crazy but most of the linux commands I need day to day just work.
- cyphar 11y agoI feel like you can't have really scratched the surface on what you can do in a real Unix shell. I doubt that Windows has support for things I use all the time (like command substitution <(some command) where the output of a command appears to be a file to a program).
- cdcarter 11y agoI doubt you've used Powershell. Using objects on the cmdline is pretty ballin.