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You seem to be responding to points that I’m not making. I’m aware that very few people install bash outside the context of a typical Unix OS. It would indeed
by umanwizard 7y ago
You seem to be responding to points that I’m not making.
I’m aware that very few people install bash outside the context of a typical Unix OS. It would indeed be pedantic and useless to point out that that’s theoretically possible, and that’s not what I’m doing.
It’s also very rare to install, say, grep outside of a typical Unix OS. But you wouldn’t say “the grep workflow on WSL is great” to mean the entire WSL experience, unless you were specifically talking about actual grep. So why do people do it with bash?
- lonelappde 7y agoBecause bash is the name of the Unix shell, differentiated from the traditional Windows shell.
- umanwizard 7y agoWould you say “I’m using Chrome and Visual Studio” or “I’m using a Windows workflow and tools” or “I’m using explorer.exe” ? The first two make much more sense to me than the third. (As an aside, it’s not true that Bash is “the Unix shell” and it is in fact not the default on several Unix-like systems. But in fairness to your point, it is the default on most GNU/Linux distros).