Master the command line, in one page

Re:Master the command line, in one page by chrisweekly on Friday November 25, 2022 @10:34AM (#33743287)

Please, can anyone provide guidance for making Win10 CLI UX tolerable? After more than 2 decades on macOS, very comfortable w/ customized zsh in iTerm, I'm now unavoidably working in Windows and hating it. Sad to discover my vague perception of Windows as a 2nd-class citizen (or 3rd-world country) is all too accurate. Running git-bash in Terminal, surfacing any meaningful git status in my $PS1 incurs multisecond latency. Surely there's a better way. Right?

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Re:Master the command line, in one page by jon_adler on Friday November 25, 2022 @04:46PM (#33747170)

I prefer macOS however my work machine is Win10. To improve matters, I use Cmder for my terminal with WSL2/Ubuntu. It isn’t perfect however it isn’t awful either.

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Re:Master the command line, in one page by chrisweekly on Sunday November 27, 2022 @02:50PM (#33766086)

Thanks for your reply.

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Re:Master the command line, in one page by sillyapple on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:31AM (#33774819)

For a good PowerShell experience I use https://starship.rs/ which includes git info. I use the new windows terminal with the font/colors/etc set just so. For a package manager I like using https://scoop.sh/ and for anything missing there chocolatey usually has it. Good luck, there's more good stuff out there but it's hard to find.

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Re:Master the command line, in one page by chrisweekly on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:16PM (#33777255)

Cool, thanks. I might give starship a try.

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