I typically install it along with git and Git Extensions. It's great when you already know the bash way of doing something, hashing files for example.
Plus Bash on Windows isn't a new thing: we already have Cygwin, MinGW and I believe there was also some native Windows PE ports too. This is just a better implementation than the aforementioned three.
Like nearly everything, it's a context-dependent cost-benefit consideration.
This is amazing, now I can have emacs server in Linux running through bash with windows service manager.
This is fucking awesome. I hope they improve thing further and further.
The only and biggest problem : Windows ridiculous conemu. I am not going use a console which I can't resize without any problem. For the sake of God they don't have unlimited buffer option and hide scrollbar (permanently) or resize window without messing up text.
Sorry I don't follow. What resizing problems are you having with ConEmu? Works fine when I've tried it. We are talking about the same ConEmu, right?
This might rain on your parade a bit. Each island still has to know about the file sytem of the other island.
As we all know Microsoft messed up with mobile and web, but when it comes to software development they are ruler without even competition. Windows kernel is wonderful peace of software, and with this wsl they are literally showing industry how is software developed.
> 1 Use the same working directory as the CMD or PowerShell prompt > 2 Are run under as the WSL default user > 3 Have the same Windows administrative rights as the calling process and terminal
1 and 3 are not surprising. But 2? There's a WSL default user? Windows users aren't automatically mapped to unique Linux users? That seems problematic in theory. How does it work out in practice?
When they run bash for the first time, system asks them to create a default linux user. Typically, this is also the only user.
Mapping Linux users to Windows users would be quite problematic, e. g. with user such as nobody or apache that are typical to Linux.
As I'm reading the comments I keep seeing things that other people want to do that I never thought of...that's awesome.
