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You can get Linux shells and environments in Windows via WSL https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl
by cloudking 4y ago
You can get Linux shells and environments in Windows via WSL https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
- pixl97 4y agoYep, WSL is the way to go, specifically WSL2 if you want more IO performance. Very convenient on my work laptop where I can't replace the OS.
- naikrovek 4y agobash, zsh, ksh, etc., those aren't shells for Windows, though, are they?
- cloudking 4y agoWSL makes it possible, you can interact with the Linux and Windows filesystems interchangeably
- naikrovek 4y agoi know, but that isn’t really what i’m getting at.
- pixl97 4y agoThe distinction is kind of meaningless. If you want an extensible shell in windows you're either using powershell (which I have come to quite like) or you can use any of the Linux shells that exist via WSL. Native shells just were not a thing for the longest time as the type of user that wanted that tended to go to Linux.