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Windows Terminal
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33 | 506 | |
1,061 | 93,573 | |
0.9% | 0.5% | |
7.8 | 9.7 | |
about 2 months ago | 6 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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winstall
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LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices
https://winstall.app. There's also winget.run, but it's no longer updated.
- Sudo for Windows
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Microsoft Store in Perpetual Update (I've tried everything Google has had to say but to no avail)
What I'm thinking now is you may just want to solve this with the nuclear option like this guy did - https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f4tw3k/cannot_open_any_microsoft_store_apps_windows/ A pain in the ass, but most 3rd-party applications can export settings, and a program like Patch My PC or winstall can reinstall software quickly. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-clean-install-windows-10-a.html
- Dependency Workaround for Win32 app requiring Store For Business/MS Store App?
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Things You Immediately Install On Your New PC Starter Pack
As a happy Winget user: https://winstall.app/
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Software Deployment Gurus needed :-)
Here's a front end someone made to easily browse it: https://winstall.app/
- apt-pilled meme
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Switched Back to Windows After a Year and a Half of Linux
You can replicate that experience with winstall. It gives you the script file when you finish selecting the desired packages, so you can install all the desired apps on any Windows machines on one go without installing additional software.
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When reinstalling Windows, there are a few things you can always count on... this is one of them
you have that usb installer for windows you just made. there's still some room on it. make a new folder there and stuff your initial batch of application installers in it, or at least something like ninite or patchmypc or a script made from winstall.app
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SteamDeck Windows 11 Guide - Installed Win 11 on the SteamDeck and don't know what to do next? This is for you.
Winstall
Windows Terminal
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Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
> convince management of the value
This presupposes that such convincing is even possible. Many, many companies have leadership that are simply terrible at identifying value. If you've never been part of a majority of developers advocating for, if not outright begging for, some huge ROI initiative to get the green light, you are very fortunate.
There are great counterexamples, like Valve, which is known for giving developers an extreme degree of autonomy, and they benefit greatly from that approach. For each Valve, though, there are dozens of companies that manage to succeed despite themselves.
Take Microsoft, for example. One tiny, yet representative, example: the way the Windows Terminal team handled a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion:
> I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…
Just how difficult was such an endeavor in actuality? Well, given that Casey implemented his own terminal emulator from scratch and incorporated the functionality he was proposing in a mere weekend... not a whole lot. Relatively minor effort for a huge return on investment. It took Casey explaining the concepts, then providing a working proof of concept, and finally a bunch of backlash online towards the Terminal team to get them to do the right thing for themselves and their users.
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A glimpse into the universe where Windows died with the 1980s
At this point ConHost.exe is open source [0] so it is maybe not a stretch to expect Microsoft to open source CMD.EXE at some point.
Though with PowerShell being cross-platform and already open source, I personally don't think there's enough to gain in some sort of better open source CMD.EXE fork. I'd be interested in being proved wrong on that, but I'm also happy enough with PowerShell these days I'm not in a hurry to return to CMD.EXE.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host
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Windows 11 looks to be getting a key Linux tool added in the future
"Users of Linux and macOS may well be familiar with the sudo command, used regularly in the terminal, and it looks like Windows may finally be getting its own version."
More Linux tools are coming to Windows, especially Windows Server because the tools are good and they make it easier to administer a Windows Server.
They are looking at adding a default TUI text editor (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440) and now they are adding sudo.
I would not be surprised if systemd or something like it gets ported or reinvented for Windows simply because it makes managing services so nice.
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Overview over Microsoft's developer tools for Windows
GitHub
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On Being Listed as an Artist Whose Work Was Used to Train Midjourney
>We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it.
People keep saying this but it's actually much more complicated, and in many cases you can't view copyrighted content.
An example, MicroSoft employees are not permitted to view or learn from an open source (GPL-2) terminal emulator:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm...
Another example is proprietary software that may have it's source available, either intentionally or not. If you view this and then work on something related to it, like WINE for example, you are definitely at risk of being successfully sued.
If you worked at MicroSoft and worked on Windows, you would not be able to participate in WINE development at all without violating copyright.
If you viewed leaked Windows source code you also would not be able to participate in WINE development.
An interesting question that I have, is whether training on proprietary, non-trade-secret sources would be allowed. Something like unreal engine, where you can view the source but it's still proprietary.
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Terminal Smooth Scrolling
Windows Terminal is pretty good and a new terminal emulator written in the last few years. No smooth scrolling, here's the GitHub issue requesting it: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1400
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Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe reply on X
Assume its related to this:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
It's nothing serious just microsoft engineers writing slow as shit code and reacting poorly to someone trying to help.
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Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
"There are plenty of offline scenarios where this would be incredibly useful. For disconnected environments, etc. There are some environments that will never connect to winget."
Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440#disc...
- Windows Feature Exploration: Default CLI Text Editor
- Default Windows CLI Text Editor (Neovim/Emacs/edit/)
What are some alternatives?
Cider - A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. 🚀
Tabby - A terminal for a more modern age
winget-pkgs - The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository
cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
sixel-tmux - sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics
dxvk-async
PowerShell - PowerShell for every system!
mpc-hc - Media Player Classic
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
uwufetch - A meme system info tool for Linux, based on nyan/uwu trend on r/linuxmasterrace.
refterm - Reference monospace terminal renderer