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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Saturday January 02, 2021 @11:19AM (#25613775)
SSH and X Windows servers also exist for Windows.
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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by jevgeni on Saturday January 02, 2021 @12:08PM (#25614230)
It takes me 2 minutes to install WSL Ubuntu. Or I could spend half a day on figuring out a hacky solution to a Windows/SSH/XWindows workflow that offers even a comparable level of integration. It will grow into weeks of obsessive tweaking until I feel compelled to write a blog post for HN where I show my sick setup and hours and hours I dumped into this, while meaningful work piled up in my TODOs.

... Or I could just install WSL.

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Saturday January 02, 2021 @12:38PM (#25614520)
Or just install Humming Bird, working just fine for me since 2000.
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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by whenitrains on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:52PM (#25616411)
Or just install WSL?

What's the problem with Microsoft having an answer to this?

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by pjmlp on Sunday January 03, 2021 @02:40AM (#25620280)
In what concerns Microsoft, I praise them for having acknowledged the strategy error that was not giving the UNIX subsystem the same love as Win32.

Because as proven by macOS and now WSL adoption, GNU/Linux would never have taken off if PCs already had a mature set of POSIX toys, given that its users care 0% about GNU/Linux, and would be deploying to HP-UX, Solaris, Aix, Irix, Tru64 just as well.

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Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history by jevgeni on Sunday January 03, 2021 @03:38AM (#25620493)
Cool. I'll use WSL though.
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