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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.018s | source
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typon ◴[30 Mar 16 13:46 UTC] No.11389194[source]▶
This might be the most exciting news I've heard in a long time. Being able to use Visual Studio and .NET for web development while using zsh and all the other Linux tools? Dreamland.
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sfilipov ◴[30 Mar 16 14:46 UTC] No.11389628[source]▶
The only reason I can't really use Windows as development OS are the inferior terminal emulators. As good as ConEmu is, it is still worse than Terminator etc. Unless I can run a native Linux terminal emulator, it doesn't make much of a difference to me. Also, the filesystem differences don't help.

I was also running into Haskell compilation problems that were fixed by running Ubuntu in a Vagrant environment but speed was slow. There isn't good NFS support on Windows either (there is some).

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dogma1138 ◴[30 Mar 16 14:56 UTC] No.11389712[source]▶
I would call powershell anything but inferior.
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1. ygra ◴[30 Mar 16 15:45 UTC] No.11390120[source]▶
PowerShell isn't a console or terminal emulator. It's a shell that uses conhost just like any other console application on Windows.
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2. dogma1138 ◴[30 Mar 16 20:00 UTC] No.11392470[source]▶
Powershell ISE is quite a good terminal emulator (even tho it wasn't intended as one), it's also extensible via addons and there are quite a few nifty ones like git integration and the likes.

This is the ISE in a default configuration https://imgur.com/xz9Kfpt On the left just an open terminal, in the middle a script which can be edited and executed at any time with F5, and on the right all the powershell commands which could be either immediately executed or inserted into your script with ease.

Unless you need tab browsing that much, which you can get via addons, the ISE is one of the best "terminals" out there imho.