https://livesys.se/tags/windows/ Recent content in Windows on Living Systems_ Hugo en-us Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:36:00 +0100 https://livesys.se/posts/linux-like-non-wsl-terminal-env-on-windows/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:36:00 +0100 https://livesys.se/posts/linux-like-non-wsl-terminal-env-on-windows/ <p>I was looking for was a no-fuss, lightweight, robust and as simple as possible solution to running my normal Bash-based workflow inside the main Windows filesystem, interacting with the Windows world. Turns out there are some solutions. Read on for more info on that.</p> <h2 id="windows-subsystem-for-linux-too-heavy">Windows Subsystem for Linux too heavy</h2> <p>First, I must mention the impressive work by Microsoft on the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka. WSL)</a> , which more or less lets you run an almost full-blown distribution of popular Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora. WSL is awesome, but also kind of heavy, easily taking something closer to an hour to install. 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 <code>\r\n</code> for line endings while Linux uses just <code>\n</code>). Finally, the default bash terminal for WSL did not even have zoomable text. All in all, this made it clear that this is not the light-weight simple solution I was looking for. WSL is awesome, but too heavy that I will be comfortable to quickly install it on any Windows machine I need to spend time working on.</p>