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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by stephenr on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @03:56AM (#14742338)
Right, so again, I haven't used it, so I'm going on what I've read, but my understanding is that Mercurial (which is Python based) is much more Windows friendly, and I actually use Mercurial more than Git.

But still, regardless of whose "fault" it is, I couldn't imagine doing dev on a windows machine, some of which is because of the vastly different environment.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by staofbur on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:06AM (#14742377)
Mercurial is much nicer on windows. Git could have been the same but it targeted unix likes to start with and didn't evolve into something even remotely portable for a while.

I use fossil for my own projects. I find that agreeable on all platforms.

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