Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by dillera on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:34PM
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The WSL is absolutely not integrated at all. It's pretty horrible.
What terminal do you use with it? Powershell? How do you cut and paste between terminals? Tabs? I found the only way to have a decent Unix terminal experience was to run an Xserver and connect to it from powershell.
Install git in WSL, clone down some projects and then access those files you just cloned down from Windows Explorer. Show the integration there...
The MacOS/Unix integration is light-years ahead of WSL- because the MacOS actually runs Unix, it's not just bolted on.
The people that claim that WSL is integrated with W10 can't have used it for more than 30 min. Otherwise they wouldn't comment about it.
Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by cmurf on Thursday November 09, 2017 @11:42PM
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It's a fair point that it is not as well integrated as the native approach that you get with either macOS or Linux or BSD. But you absolutely should be able to right click copy paste between terminals. And yes I can update Apple's crusty shit with Homebrew, but the staleness of Apple's CLI tools is a blight.
Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
by dillera on Sunday November 12, 2017 @11:26AM
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Well I have to use chocolately with W10.. which is the same thing as HB for OSX. The LSW is a totally sep system in there- an install of python on LSW cannot work with the python installed in windows.
This is completley not true of Home Brew on OSX.
It also sucks to VM, it's not even legal to VM it if not on Apple hardware. It sucks when running other OS's in a VM. Seriously, XNU just does not like being host or guest, it becomes a CPU and memory pig like no other OS.