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While we're talking about windows, any advice on how to make it developer friendly outside of .net? (Say for people whose main tools are bash, vi and a compiler

by roma1n 11y ago

While we're talking about windows, any advice on how to make it developer friendly outside of .net? (Say for people whose main tools are bash, vi and a compiler)

jszymborski 11y ago
Step one: Install Cmdr http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/ http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/ Step two: If on !Win10, use the chocolatey nu-get package manager (https://chocolatey.org/ https://chocolatey.org/), but if on Win10, I _think_ the native package manager will be a drop-in, tho I'm not sure. That is literally _all_ you have to do to get 90% of what I do on a linux terminal into a windows console.
- jclos 11y ago
  I'd like to add Babun [1] as an alternative to Cmder. Not that I don't like Cmder, but Babun comes with a preconfigured Cygwin and a lot more tools out of the box. [1] http://babun.github.io/ http://babun.github.io/
- Scarbutt 11y ago
  Didn't you forget to add Cygwin there?
  - toddchambery 11y ago
    Unless you have to execute (ba)sh-native scripts in Windows, I find Cygwin way too cumbersome. As I mentioned above, UnxUtils gets you the tooling without the path delimiter headaches.
- RomanPushkin 11y ago
  Be careful with Chocolatey, it will install the software without unchecking those nastly tools: search bars, etc. To be honest, it makes Chocolatey absolutely unuseful.
  - jsalit 11y ago
    Source for this? I use Chocolatey on Win7 and haven't had anything unwanted installed. No Ask Toolbar (from multiple JRE and JDK installs), etc.
- toddchambery 11y ago
  Agree about Cmdr, but I'd add PyCmd[1] and UnxUtils[2]. I've never had much success with Chocolatey (probably due to corporate firewall issues). Gets me acceptably close to bash. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycmd/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycmd/ [2] http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
- bad_user 11y ago
  Chocolatey has been awful for me. Also Cmdr is not well unmaintained and it's a far cry from the Linux tool-chain. People will be better off with Babun or straight Cygwin - http://babun.github.io/ http://babun.github.io/
rburhum 11y ago
Cygwin
megaman821 11y ago
Install MinGw

by roma1n 11y ago

While we're talking about windows, any advice on how to make it developer friendly outside of .net? (Say for people whose main tools are bash, vi and a compiler)

jszymborski 11y ago

Step one: Install Cmdr http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/ http://gooseberrycreative.com/cmder/ Step two: If on !Win10, use the chocolatey nu-get package manager (https://chocolatey.org/ https://chocolatey.org/), but if on Win10, I _think_ the native package manager will be a drop-in, tho I'm not sure. That is literally _all_ you have to do to get 90% of what I do on a linux terminal into a windows console.

jclos 11y ago
I'd like to add Babun [1] as an alternative to Cmder. Not that I don't like Cmder, but Babun comes with a preconfigured Cygwin and a lot more tools out of the box. [1] http://babun.github.io/ http://babun.github.io/
Scarbutt 11y ago
Didn't you forget to add Cygwin there?
- toddchambery 11y ago
  Unless you have to execute (ba)sh-native scripts in Windows, I find Cygwin way too cumbersome. As I mentioned above, UnxUtils gets you the tooling without the path delimiter headaches.
RomanPushkin 11y ago
Be careful with Chocolatey, it will install the software without unchecking those nastly tools: search bars, etc. To be honest, it makes Chocolatey absolutely unuseful.
- jsalit 11y ago
  Source for this? I use Chocolatey on Win7 and haven't had anything unwanted installed. No Ask Toolbar (from multiple JRE and JDK installs), etc.
toddchambery 11y ago
Agree about Cmdr, but I'd add PyCmd[1] and UnxUtils[2]. I've never had much success with Chocolatey (probably due to corporate firewall issues). Gets me acceptably close to bash. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycmd/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycmd/ [2] http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
bad_user 11y ago
Chocolatey has been awful for me. Also Cmdr is not well unmaintained and it's a far cry from the Linux tool-chain. People will be better off with Babun or straight Cygwin - http://babun.github.io/ http://babun.github.io/

rburhum 11y ago

Cygwin

megaman821 11y ago

Install MinGw