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> Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac? Not any more. Mac OS looks and feels very antiquated compared to Windows today. As

> Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac? Not any more. Mac OS looks and feels very antiquated compared to Windows today. As a developer, Windows has caught up to MacOS for the shells and beats it in pretty much all the other areas (UI of the OS, keyboard shortcuts everywhere, great file manager(s), much more productivity tools available, etc...). And of course, Windows laptops are anywhere between 1/3rd to half the price of the equivalent Mac laptop. These days, I use both Mac and Windows to develop but once I can no longer use my Mac Book Pro, I won't be getting another Apple laptop, it's going to be Windows all the way for a few years until Apple catches up again, if they ever do.

komali2 10y ago
Can you tell me more about your bash setup? It seems silly, but to me two big annoyances are 1. I can't figure out how to easily open up the bash/ubuntu thing where I need it. I'd love to just have a dedicated "github stuff" folder that it opens into by default (and can edit). I always seem to put stuff where bash ubuntu isn't allowed to touch, or I'm manually CDing around until I find that weird place where the C drive is. I mean yea I can google it, but I'd have to do it every time. 2. Pardon my french but it's fuckugly. The colors, the fonts, lack of transparency. Copying/pasting/etc all suck. How can I make this less sucky?
- tracker1 10y ago
  I use ConEmu in windows as my terminal of choice.. there are options to add an "open command prompt here" to the registry for directories/folders so you can right-click in explorer... You can also configure git-bash as your default... Copy/paste also get better... with the windows terminal, you can go into the config and choose the quick paste option, I forget what it's called on a mac at work. Mostly, I use vs code, and open that from where I am in explorer.. it has it's own terminal that opens in the current directory, that I change to use git-bash -l, adding in the git prompt script(s). Overall it works very well, imho better than bash for windows (ubuntu userspace).
- hirsin 10y ago
  1. I put a cmd link in my taskbar, which opens to my Repos folder, and then launches bash (which will open in that folder under /mnt/c). Or just do `ln -s /mnt/c/My/Repo ~/GithubStuff` and have a symlink from Ubuntu land into your Windows drive. 2. Colors are better supported in the CU coming out in 3 weeks, and transparency + copy/paste can be setup via the file menu (right click on the logo in the command prompt title bar and go to Properties).
- hota_mazi 10y ago
  I actually have a few different setups on my various Windows computers, just to test things. And they are all pretty much equivalent, the only difference is the console I use (Cmder, msysgit, etc...). The main take aways: - I share all my dot files (.bash_profile, etc...) between Windows and Mac OS. They are in a Google Drive folder and whenever I move to a new machine, I just copy them all verbatim and they work right away. - Bash, git and ssh work out of the box on these Windows/UNIX shells. I agree with the colors, fonts and the copy/paste interaction on Windows. Not great, but tolerable. I want to experiment with more consoles since there are so many to choose from on Windows. Oh and Cmder has transparency and you can configure copy/paste to be by line instead of by block, at least.
  - komali2 10y ago
    >they are in a google drive folder OOOOooooh this is fucking smart. How have I not thought of this?!
- thomastjeffery 10y ago
  > it's fuckugly. The colors, the fonts, lack of transparency. Copying/pasting/etc all suck. No kidding. cmd has not meaningfully changed since its original version. It just sucks. No matter how nice the shells are.

komali2 10y ago

Can you tell me more about your bash setup? It seems silly, but to me two big annoyances are 1. I can't figure out how to easily open up the bash/ubuntu thing where I need it. I'd love to just have a dedicated "github stuff" folder that it opens into by default (and can edit). I always seem to put stuff where bash ubuntu isn't allowed to touch, or I'm manually CDing around until I find that weird place where the C drive is. I mean yea I can google it, but I'd have to do it every time. 2. Pardon my french but it's fuckugly. The colors, the fonts, lack of transparency. Copying/pasting/etc all suck. How can I make this less sucky?

tracker1 10y ago
I use ConEmu in windows as my terminal of choice.. there are options to add an "open command prompt here" to the registry for directories/folders so you can right-click in explorer... You can also configure git-bash as your default... Copy/paste also get better... with the windows terminal, you can go into the config and choose the quick paste option, I forget what it's called on a mac at work. Mostly, I use vs code, and open that from where I am in explorer.. it has it's own terminal that opens in the current directory, that I change to use git-bash -l, adding in the git prompt script(s). Overall it works very well, imho better than bash for windows (ubuntu userspace).
hirsin 10y ago
1. I put a cmd link in my taskbar, which opens to my Repos folder, and then launches bash (which will open in that folder under /mnt/c). Or just do `ln -s /mnt/c/My/Repo ~/GithubStuff` and have a symlink from Ubuntu land into your Windows drive. 2. Colors are better supported in the CU coming out in 3 weeks, and transparency + copy/paste can be setup via the file menu (right click on the logo in the command prompt title bar and go to Properties).
hota_mazi 10y ago
I actually have a few different setups on my various Windows computers, just to test things. And they are all pretty much equivalent, the only difference is the console I use (Cmder, msysgit, etc...). The main take aways: - I share all my dot files (.bash_profile, etc...) between Windows and Mac OS. They are in a Google Drive folder and whenever I move to a new machine, I just copy them all verbatim and they work right away. - Bash, git and ssh work out of the box on these Windows/UNIX shells. I agree with the colors, fonts and the copy/paste interaction on Windows. Not great, but tolerable. I want to experiment with more consoles since there are so many to choose from on Windows. Oh and Cmder has transparency and you can configure copy/paste to be by line instead of by block, at least.
- komali2 10y ago
  >they are in a google drive folder OOOOooooh this is fucking smart. How have I not thought of this?!
thomastjeffery 10y ago
> it's fuckugly. The colors, the fonts, lack of transparency. Copying/pasting/etc all suck. No kidding. cmd has not meaningfully changed since its original version. It just sucks. No matter how nice the shells are.