Windows gets a new terminal

Re:Windows gets a new terminal by ramses0 on Monday May 06, 2019 @10:04PM (#19845766)

I'm on OSX and I have to have a docker container up and running in order to do development. GNU v. BSD tooling just isn't cutting it, and that's actually (IMHO) what's stealing market share from OSX.

They got windows+linux users in the first place by pre-installing curl+ssh, now their version of ls, find, and bash are all holding back those same windows+linux users.

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Re:Windows gets a new terminal by TimTheTinker on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @01:14PM (#19851394)

I use homebrew to install updated versions of gnu utilities. Sometimes it doesn't symlink them into /usr/local/bin because of potential conflicts with preinstalled versions, but you can override that by adding them to $PATH in your .bashrc or .zshrc - it provides the command to do so in the console.

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Re:Windows gets a new terminal by nickjj on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @08:24AM (#19848744)

Yeah it's kind of funny that Windows now does a better job at "being" Linux-like than MacOS.

Another example is Ansible. Since my entire dev environment is in WSL and WSL is running Ubuntu 18.04, I can reuse all of my exact Ansible roles that I use on a production Ubuntu 18.04 server. They work just the same in WSL, so setting up my dev environment involves nothing more than reusing roles I've created for production.

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