It also has some odd behaviours like opening files in Windows from WSL will give you troubles with line endings (as you might know Windows uses \n\r for line endings while Linux uses just \n). ![]() WSL is awesome, but also kind of heavy to install, easily taking something closer to an hour to install (or that was my impression). WSL), which more or less lets you run a full-blown (at least GUI-less, and not even completely GUI-less) distribution of popular Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora. Windows Subsystem for Linux too heavyįirst, I must mention the impressive work by Microsoft on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka. Turns out there are some solutions (hint: look at the thumbnail picture to the right). So, what I was looking for was a no-fuss, lightweight, robust and as simple as possible solution to running my normal Bash-based workflow, but inside the main Windows filesystem, interacting with the Windows world. The default terminal on windows (aka cmd.exe) is not the nicest thing to have to deal with, and the much more powerful PowerShell is different enough from bash that it will cause some frustration and grief. Being a heavy user of Bash on Xubuntu Linux this quickly had me frustrated with how to do things quickly and efficiently on the Windows commandline. ![]() ![]() In my new job as a consultant and developer in Machine Learning and AI at Savantic AB, although we internally have a “choose your favorite OS” policy, we’re from time to time running into situations where we need to do development on or for Windows.
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