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Ubuntu on Windows

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2049 points bpierre | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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homulilly ◴[30 Mar 16 21:54 UTC] No.11393340[source]▶
Is this still going to be using the absolutely dreadfull conhost? Because that's the biggest shortcoming windows currently has with its interactive command line tools, cmd.exe and powershell are both usable, not great (okay, pretty bad honestly, but usable) when you don't consider the shitty terminal they force you into using.
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1. sveiss ◴[30 Mar 16 22:19 UTC] No.11393483[source]▶
Hopefully they'll include emulation for ptys, which will make it very easy for you to run your terminal emulator of choice instead of relying on on conhost.

If they're smart, they'll allow a Linux ABI exe to sit on one end of a pty, and Win32/UWP exe on the other, so people can use a native Windows terminal emulator instead of needing Xming or similar.

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2. JdeBP ◴[03 Apr 16 20:06 UTC] No.11417412[source]▶
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415843 .