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It's never been commonplace but can't you still run alternate shells (the Windows term for the GUI, not the command prompt in UNIX parlance)?
by kev009 2y ago
It's never been commonplace but can't you still run alternate shells (the Windows term for the GUI, not the command prompt in UNIX parlance)?
- p_l 2y agoYou still can, and it's even exposed specifically for making constrained setups (though not everyone knows to use it)
- bragr 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for...
- chasil 2y agoThe wiki that you posted does not include busybox. https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html
- kev009 2y agoYou didn't understand the parenthetical, busybox has no relation to the Windows shell.
- chasil 2y agoIt is a Windows shell. A POSIX Windows shell. Such as should have been present at the beginning, not the OS/2 affliction.
- kev009 2y agoUnfortunately it is still clear you don't understand my comment nor the linked wikipedia page at all. Windows Shell isn't the same use of the word you are overloading here in this thread and you are out in left field from what everyone else is talking about. Maybe revisit the wikipedia page and read a little more, look at the project descriptions&screencaps, and it will make sense to you.
- bigstrat2003 2y ago"shell" in Windows roughly refers to the GUI, not a CLI host like it does in Unix.
- EricE 2y agoIndeed the first thing I do on a new Windows install is load Open Shell.
- chasil 2y agoBusybox has a great shell in the Windows port. It calls itself "bash" but it is really the Almquist shell with a bit of added bash syntactic sugar. It does not support arrays. https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html