An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard

Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by SilverSlash on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:58AM (#17902339)

That's what I'm most afraid of if apple doesn't veer from its current path. I can't go back to windows. I've used windows, Mac OS, and Ubuntu, and windows was the worst OS for me.

Almost every single tool/technology that I've come across in the last couple years has separate laborious and annoying installation instructions for windows. Many don't even support windows at the start.

Unless Microsoft rewrites windows as a *nix OS from scratch (not gonna happen), I don't see myself being willing to go back to it.

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Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by pavlov on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:29AM (#17902465)

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run unmodified Linux binaries in a Windows terminal.

You can install Ubuntu from the Windows App Store and it’s the real thing, not an emulation layer like Cygwin. You don’t need separate install instructions — just follow the ones for Ubuntu.

It’s really an underappreciated amazing feature of modern Windows: you can run an entire Linux userland on the same kernel.

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Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by davidandgoliath on Monday September 03, 2018 @03:19PM (#17904379)

It's handy, I'll give you that. Until this bug (feature?) is sorted, it's dangerous: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...

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Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by pavlov on Monday September 03, 2018 @05:37PM (#17905030)

The Linux files live in a separate location from the standard Windows folders that Explorer exposes. I've never had a problem with accidentally stumbling into my Linux tree from the Windows GUI.

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Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by davidandgoliath on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:44AM (#17906718)

Understood, I'd launch editors from the wsl & end up blowing up all of my work without thinking. It's hard to get out of the habit of typing `atom .` inside a folder.

Oh well, linux works for me :)

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Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by 52-6F-62 on Monday September 03, 2018 @10:31AM (#17902768)

I’ll second this. I found the emulators like Cygwin a bit clunky for my tastes. The WSL is a great compromise.

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Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by runamok on Monday September 03, 2018 @12:35PM (#17903485)

I do love Homebrew but windows has chocolatey which is an analog or you could just use the windows Linux subsystem and use the native apt or yum tools.

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