An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard

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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