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Awesome Windows
- lcfcjs 9y agoThis is pretty neat. Is there a Mac equivalent?
- pmoriarty 9y agoCygwin is not mentioned on there. I'd rate that critical to make Windows even moderately bearable. The main problem, of course, is that Cygwin is way too slow, but I'd rather suffer that live without it.
- jongalloway2 9y agoWhat are your main uses for Cygwin as opposed to just using WSL / Bash on Windows?
- pmoriarty 9y agoCygwin's not just bash (in fact, you don't even have to use bash in Cygwin -- you can use zsh, for instance). There are thousands of packages in Cygwin's package manager, and you can also compile your own using gcc or another compiler you can get through Cygwin.
- rodgerd 9y ago"Bash on Windows" is pretty misleading - it's really a Linux kernel translator. You can use (supported) three distros, and as long as your Linux software doesn't use any non-translated APIs, it will Just Work. This is why the default Ubuntu will let you apt-get more-or-less anything from the Ubuntu binary repos.
- nolok 9y agoWSL / Bash on windows comes with apt-get and the entire Ubuntu repository. As a former Cygwin user, I consider WSL vastly superior for my uses and have switched for good earlier this month.
- rodgerd 9y agoAny 32-bit edition of Windows, or being stuck on a pre-Win 10 version (corporate desktop, for example). Personally I prefer to wrap Cygwin in http://www.msys2.org/ http://www.msys2.org/ these days, which gives me pacman as a package manager.
- tym0 9y ago> Any 32-bit edition of Windows I was quite disappointed when I bought a cheap Windows Table/Laptop to tinker with. And the Windows installer would not let install the 64bit version on 2 gigs of ram... > Personally I prefer to wrap Cygwin in http://www.msys2.org/ http://www.msys2.org/ Can you tell me more about that? Isn't cygwin and msys2 two separate project?
- rodgerd 9y ago"At its core is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer)". So I guess "wrap cygwin" isn't quite accurate, but it's based on the cygwin and extended.
- localcdn 9y agoTime for a GNU/Linux version
- vgh 9y agoSure. That's at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/ If you're unfamiliar, this isn't particular to any distro necessarily, although yes it is largely. It's just a fantastic resource for documentation on all kinds of packages and system configuration.
- jlgaddis 9y agoFWIW, to others reading this thread, if you run Linux the Arch Linux Wiki is an amazing resource you should check out, regardless of what distribution you run. Some of the info there is, of course, Arch-specific, but most of it can be applied to any other Linux distribution.
- jongalloway2 9y agohttps://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-linux https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-linux You can look up all the awesome lists here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
- hibbelig 9y agoI'm surprised about the zsh mention. It seems to run under Cygwin mostly, right? I guess under MSYS2, as well. But there is nothing that mentions this specialty.
- jongalloway2 9y agoOn Windows 10 / Bash you can just apt-get install zsh https://www.howtogeek.com/258518/how-to-use-zsh-or-another-shell-in-windows-10/ https://www.howtogeek.com/258518/how-to-use-zsh-or-another-s...
- zzalpha 9y agoVim but not Emacs? Yikes. This is a flamewar waiting to happen...
- copperx 9y agoThis isn't a curated list, this is just a list of most popular apps in every category.