Re:Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsys...
by sandyarmstrong on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:21PM
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Fair criticisms!
Personally I'm thrilled to finally have a good terminal experience on Windows. The copy/paste behavior is very comfortable to me, given the similarity to gnome-terminal. And to be honest I never really got comfortable with CMD's behavior.
I don't use WSL itself much, so I can't comment on those bugs except to say I hope you find fixes.
I've ended up doing a lot of PowerShell for work lately, so I jotted down a guide for myself for getting the terminal to behave the way I like, if it's useful to anyone: https://gist.github.com/sandyarmstrong/8b48d7dd0cb01c63cabc6...
- Sometimes the preferences just decide to go through the "open as a json file" path
- I don't know if it's my settings or what, but in WSL2/Ubuntu 20.04 I keep getting into a state where my background is black but lines fill in white. I've used the same .bashrc for a decade without that issue.
- The copy/paste UI is different both from normal Linux interfaces, from CMD, and from the Windows standard.
- As far as I can see, no support for USB CDC devices either via WSL2 or through Windows itself. There's no reason I should need PuTTY still to access a usb-serial console.