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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by pjmlp on Friday August 12, 2022 @01:41AM (#32435040)
Another thing, is how now we tend to get CLI scripts for what used to be nice Visual Studio wizards.

Microsot teams are tainting the Windows developer experience trying to cater to the crowd that has been buying Apple gear for GNU/Linux development.

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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by jrumbut on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:10AM (#32435760)
And the worst part is those of us who resemble your remark just download Git Bash et al because Powershell is too verbose anyway.
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by pjmlp on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:23AM (#32435831)
Because parsing text is so great.
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by copperx on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:55AM (#32435677)
And that's good
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Re:Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) by pjmlp on Friday August 12, 2022 @04:22AM (#32435827)
Not from point of view of Windows devs used to what "Developers, Developers, Developers" meant in practice.
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