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Does Windows support of BASH help at all? I am curious if anyone finds that useful.

by KSS42 9y ago

gervase 9y ago
I use it daily. It's not quite as good as the Mac's terminal in many ways, but in a few ways it's even better (apt > homebrew, for example). If all you need to do is ssh into a VM or server, it's awesome. If you need to run a specific version of a legacy Fortran compiler, it might not work for you. I switch between all three systems over the course of a day, but in terms of (A) system consistency, and (B) well-designed (third-party) applications, Mac still wins.
- kuon 9y ago
  Yes, the Mac has good consistency. But I am very pleased with Windows window management and multimonitor support. Being able to resize multiple adjacent windows with a single drag is really nice. The window+tab and alt+tab shortcuts are complimentary and better than the mac counterpart.
kuon 9y ago
It is getting more and more useful. Microsoft is really working on it. I am using a VM for now to be sure to get 100% linux environment working. But I hope to be able to do all my dev work in Windows in a few months. There is one thing missing still, it is something like iTerm 2. I am currently running terminator on linux via X11. Having a nice native Windows terminal emulator would be a big plus. There is ConEmu, but after a lot of tinkering I was unable to make proper color and mouse support working. MacOS is a very nice system for developers, and I am very sad to move away from it. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-motivations-b10accc10889 https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-moti...
- KSS42 9y ago
  There was an interesting interview on Windows Weekly podcast eps 514. Q & A with Special guest Rich Turner, Senior Project Manager, Bash on Windows and Windows Console. He talks about future bash/Linux support.

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Does Windows support of BASH help at all? I am curious if anyone finds that useful.

by KSS42 9y ago

Does Windows support of BASH help at all? I am curious if anyone finds that useful.

gervase 9y ago
I use it daily. It's not quite as good as the Mac's terminal in many ways, but in a few ways it's even better (apt > homebrew, for example). If all you need to do is ssh into a VM or server, it's awesome. If you need to run a specific version of a legacy Fortran compiler, it might not work for you. I switch between all three systems over the course of a day, but in terms of (A) system consistency, and (B) well-designed (third-party) applications, Mac still wins.
- kuon 9y ago
  Yes, the Mac has good consistency. But I am very pleased with Windows window management and multimonitor support. Being able to resize multiple adjacent windows with a single drag is really nice. The window+tab and alt+tab shortcuts are complimentary and better than the mac counterpart.
kuon 9y ago
It is getting more and more useful. Microsoft is really working on it. I am using a VM for now to be sure to get 100% linux environment working. But I hope to be able to do all my dev work in Windows in a few months. There is one thing missing still, it is something like iTerm 2. I am currently running terminator on linux via X11. Having a nice native Windows terminal emulator would be a big plus. There is ConEmu, but after a lot of tinkering I was unable to make proper color and mouse support working. MacOS is a very nice system for developers, and I am very sad to move away from it. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-motivations-b10accc10889 https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-moti...
- KSS42 9y ago
  There was an interesting interview on Windows Weekly podcast eps 514. Q & A with Special guest Rich Turner, Senior Project Manager, Bash on Windows and Windows Console. He talks about future bash/Linux support.