Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores

Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by freefriedrice on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:38PM (#23161464)

It hasn't changed! Except for PowerShell, but that's... oy.

I have PowerShell, Git Shell and Cygwin running on my windows Dev box and all three make me cry on a weekly basis because I have to switch between them to do different things. I suppose one day I will sit down to fix my Windows dev environment, but it makes me feel so bloody frustrated that my muscle-memory shell is so ... perverted by windows implementations.

MS is bringing Bash to windows natively. I don't know how that is going to work since piping just isn't there, but I've got my fingers crossed that I'll only have to deal with ONE shell for windows!!!

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by meddlepal on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:09PM (#23162261)

"Bash for Windows" is just WSL2 (forget WSL1 existed, as a proof of concept market validator it was good, but it has real issues because bridging NT -> Linux syscalls is hard.).

It's not a native Bash experience but it's pretty close. I say "not native" because it's actually running a VM under the hood and bridging the file systems via 9P network protocol.

I know people who are using it and love it. I have not switched yet, but I am definitely going to investigate it at some point.

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