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Using Bash on Windows and it's pretty neat. I'll probably use this a lot.

  1. BashZeStampeedo

    BashZeStampeedo

    Oh? I'm going to have to start charging them if they're using my likeness for something on Windows now...

  2. Vitalius

    Vitalius

    lol

    Yeah, you know. I just had a thought. There better be an AMV of Vash's antics to the song "Wanted: Dead or Alive". 

    Windows 10 after the Anniversary Update allows you to install what they call "Ubuntu for Windows" if you have the 64-bit version of Windows. 

    From what I can tell so far, it essentially emulates Ubuntu (though only CLI) on Windows without a need for Hyper-V or other Virtualization software.

    All my drives are just mounted in /mnt/c or /mnt/d for the C:\ and D:\ drives. 

    It's pretty neat. A lot of stuff works by default. i.e. wget, dd, etc. 

    Unfortunately, some commands work in that they exist and run their function, but don't work in that the system is handled weird. i.e. if I do lsblk, I don't get a list of any devices. Like, at all. But it doesn't complain about /sbin/lsblk not existing for example. 

    Weird but cool.

  3. BashZeStampeedo

    BashZeStampeedo

    It's interesting, at least. I'm hoping they gradually get their terminal and bash working well enough so that I can do basic Linux-style development of my applications, because using Visual Studio just doesn't jive with me.

     

    PS: yeah, there's surely a bunch of Vash "Dead or Alive" AMVs up on YouTube :)

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