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Re:Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper... by rbanffy on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @08:54AM (#37222022)
> since I'm stuck on Windows at work

Are you allowed to install Cygwin? It does a lot for making Windows a civilized environment.

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Re:Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper... by bigpeopleareold on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:21AM (#37222332)
A really powerful feature in PowerShell is to download MSYS2 and then launch a proper shell :)

I started to learn PowerShell and probably will still have to proceed, but I so far successfully avoided it in my current job. MSYS2 for sometime was a relief (WSL was a bit crippled on my company's internal network)

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Re:Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper... by BossingAround on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:14AM (#37222242)
Cygwin aside, WSL became pretty good actually.
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Re:Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper... by rbanffy on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:24AM (#37222359)
WSL2 has some network shenanigans that make it fail when I'm on the corporate VPN. Cisco, MS and corporate IT say they are on it. They've been "on it" for the past 20-ish months.
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Re:Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper... by jayknight on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:15AM (#37223021)
https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit fixes that problem for me, and is less annoying than other fixes I tried
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Re:Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper... by ianmcgowan on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @01:02PM (#37225588)
If you're not allowed to install anything, asking for git automatically comes with git-bash, so it provides some cover for the real reason. And hey, bonus, you get git!
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Re:Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper... by rbanffy on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:18PM (#37251725)
That’s how some colleagues dealt with the corporate network shenanigans that crippled WSL.
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