Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linux/Mac terminal?

Re:Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linu... by bucma on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:46AM (#12816399)

I've been using Bash for Windows at work for a couple of months, and it's mostly been good enough that I don't need to fire up my ubuntu vm anymore.

The biggest problem I've run into lately is that I really want to be able to run GUI-based programs, and even though that does worth with VcXWin, it's kind of crappy, especially for font rendering.

Anyone know of a free (or cheap) x window server for windows that does anti-aliasing?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linu... by aq3cn on Friday October 28, 2016 @10:51AM (#12816444)

I wonder if MS finds a way to port open source Linux apps in Windows 10.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linu... by NetStrikeForce on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:43PM (#12817916)

Isn't WSL the shotgun approach to answer your question? There's no need to port thousands of useful tools; create the WSL and poof! most of it runs out of the box, natively, in Windows.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linu... by JdeBP on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:17PM (#12819696)

See discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376

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