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> It always blows my mind to see people trying to do something that is Windows native on Linux. > When in Rome, do as the Romans do! This seems to be a runnin
by delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
> It always blows my mind to see people trying to do something that is Windows native on Linux.
> When in Rome, do as the Romans do!
This seems to be a running trend for people with a deep dislike for anything Windows-native–they tend to force non-Windows paradigms on Windows, and when this breaks, blame Windows for not being 'POSIX-compatible'.
Probably also led to the explosion of tools like Cygwin, Msys2, Mingw, etc.
- drekipus 4y agoWhat's the windows paradigm in this example? Tools like cygwin, etc, exist because there (was) absolutely nothing like it on windows back in the day, or it was locked behind some paid for editor, or most often it relied on obscure hacks that were hard to read. "find which file contains this string" is a non-windows paradigm.
- pjmlp 4y agoThere wasn't free beer POSIX support, lets put it like it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
- AlmostAnyone 4y ago> "find which file contains this string" is a non-windows paradigm. Really? What about FIND and FINDSTR? FIND command is older than Linux.