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How to enable the Linux / Bash subsystem in Windows 10

• mojoe 10y ago
  There's a video at the bottom of a blog post that was linked to from this article that does a pretty great job of explaining the subsystem for Linux: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...
• kevindong 10y ago
  You can also use other Unix shells if that's your thing. I personally use zsh and it works great.
• NzNz 10y ago
  It isn't really ready for general use yet. It can't even run something as simple as an irc client without failing. https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/262 https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/262 I uninstalled it and went back to cygwin, which is the only real option for now besides running a VM.
  • lcarlson 10y ago
    Have you tried msys2/ming? Cmder.exe? Pretty good stuff if you're looking for a close Linux command line experience on Windows.
  • seanp2k2 10y ago
    Fwiw I wouldn't consider something like irssi / weechat "simple", especially if it's doing something like drawing a ui. Something like curl, jq, awk, grep, sed etc would be useful to have on Windows and should be more compatible from the shell standpoint. Not sure where they're at in terms of xterm compatibility or similar but I'm guessing that's further down the line.
• deleted 10y ago
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