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nao@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI think it’s an attempt to keep people on their platform who need easy access to a unix-like shell. Linux has it and so does mac os. Windows didn’t until they introduced wsl.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well windows had cygwin and mingw
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I had to move back to those a few times instead of using WSL during the early days. There were quite a few growing pains.
Fixed it fully by installing Linux.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ye, and cygwin, mingw and msys are terrible compared to wsl
mvirts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
has, they still work great and keep me sane