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I applaud them for trying, but decades into it, Windows scripting still makes me want to cry : ( Habits aside (I typically enjoy working with unfamiliar languag
by twelve40 10y ago
I applaud them for trying, but decades into it, Windows scripting still makes me want to cry : ( Habits aside (I typically enjoy working with unfamiliar languages), with a decent shell you feel like a superhuman flying at lightspeed. In cmd.exe and even Powershell (and sometimes even Cygwin) you feel like you are talking to a 3-year-old, having to switch to "simple English" and grimacing to get a very simple point across...
- brazzledazzle 10y agoHave you tried the new cli and Linux compatibility in Windows 10?
- twelve40 10y agoI've not... does it also require mklink in "developer mode", or can you just do ln -sf? ...
- Intermernet 10y agoI just successfully ran `ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/System .` in my home directory in bash. It didn't pop up any dialogues, but I'm a local admin on my machine so it may be different otherwise. I can create a non-admin account and test it, but it's late and I need to go to bed :-)