Microsoft is a billion dollar company and yet they manage to disappoint in each an everything they do. it seems mediocrity runs deep in he blood of MS employees. Now if anyone has used a MAC you will realize that MAC wins over developers just by their terminal. The shell of MAC is just beautifully integrated into the rest of the eco-system and it is 100% unix like. I am a long time Mac (and Ubuntu) user and because of a strange twist of fate ended up in Dell which offered me a Windows 10 laptop. After struggling for a few days I found ray of hope. The hope was called "Windows subsystem for linux" I installed it and found that the shell is totally disconnected from the rest of the OS. It is like a sandbox. So for example if you are inside Windows SubSystem for Linux and you create a git branch and commit some files into the branch. These files are visible in the shell. but when you go out to the Windows explorer these files are not visible. Its very very hard to share files between the two systems. Despite Apple having given them a working example. MS couldn't even copy it to make a half functional linux shell in Windows. This is a lesson in mediocrity and half-baked feature. Who is responsible for this abomination of a "feature"?
TC or gtfo
Actually, you could connect the subsystem to the OS, if you cd to /mnt/c/ in the terminal, then you are in the C drive
Who joins Dell and complain about MSFT?
Mac’s terminal window isn’t just “100% Unix like”... it’s arguably more Unix than even Linux is. Modern Linux descends from a Unix clone, while Mac’s OS descends from a branch of Unix.
I wish they used the same executable layout though. Such a pain in the ass going from Linux desktop to Mac for low level work.
Who wants to use a pc anyway? If cost isn’t an issue
Mac terminal is 100% unix-like because Mac OS X foundation is Unix (BSD to me more specific)... Do some research first, please...
Someone mentioned this above and want to reiterate: use the /c/mnt/Users/<youruserwhatever> to get to the c drive files. Things in the Linux shell are indexed differently
You're stupid because you do not know what you are talking about, you do not know the design process, you do not know the reliability guarantees needed for a product to called production grade, and so on. You put in zero efforts in understanding the WSL, so did I when it came to understanding your use case. WSL is limited, yes. It ain't shitty by any means. It is growing albeit one could argue slowly but it's debatable and cannot be answered correctly by me. My eyes were glowing when I could use vim on Windows without Ming. I'm an avid Mac, Windows, and Chromebook user. Depending what I want to do, i choose the operating system, or even a VM.
Yeah it’s disconnected - if you install git there and open let’s say eclipse in Windows it will have no idea that git was installed :( , hope it gets more integrated somehow soon
Thanks for realizing this. Look st the dumb asses above like that failed car salesman. Blaming the user for a half baked feature,
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If you made the *slightest* effort to learn about WSL, you'd know it's a) in beta b) sandboxed intentionally because security. What do you think "subsystem" means?