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As a Windows user for quite some time, I have couple comments about some statements.

Windows does not support links

Do you mean these things or it’s something else?

Multiple roots. C: D: and so on.

If you have 1 disk, it will be just C:, partitioning is not really a thing anymore for most. And if you have multiple disks, doesn’t UNIX separate each (I think they were called devices /dev/ or something like that)? And if you want, you can put multiple physical disks under 1 logical partition so you end up with 100TB of C:\

No central package Manager

There’s a new native thing called winget. There are also 3rd party options like Chocolatey.

Terminal sucks on windows

New Windows Terminal is pretty good. There are also 3rd party options like ConEmu.

I hate PowerShell with it’s weird verbose syntax

It is logical and easy to understand without memorizing some arcane strings. There are also aliases that even match UNIX commands like ls or man, but using those is bad practice unless you do some quick thing interactively.

All in all, if someone grows up with specific OS, they will probably prefer that OS and when comparing it with another one, try to do same operations same way as on their primary OS ending up with bad experience.

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PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Links

Cool that they have that. Why is there no cliggidy click option to quickly make one? I’d also just take an ln command.

Multiroot

On Linux at least, the dev directory contains the actual devices. It’s not where they are mounted and accessible. Everything is a file on UNIX, so this is where the physical device is, as opposed to its contents.

wt

I know and use wt at work. It’s pretty okay, but a major issue that I have with it is that it scales italics weird (at least with FiraCode NF). Also no custom or vim keys for the mark mode thing. For me, kitty is the most usable terminal, and there is no alternative for windows which does everything right (for me, or that I have found).

pwsh

I won’t step down on this one. Shells are made to be used interactively, and PowerShell feels like coding in C#. It’s good that they have some aliases, but that’s not enough.

Also, new software needs to be added to PATH manually, completion sucks compared to zsh with minimal plugins. Controlling a pwsh session just feels bad.

I’m probably still biased. It’s good if you’re okay with windows, you got less to worry about I suppose. I just really dislike it, and WI does dislikes me back.
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- OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Links
  
  There probably is some shell extension that could add this in context menu. In Windows you use mklink or New-Item commands. Links are not really popular in Windows environment, I would say an absolute majority do not even know about them or never think about them. Shortcuts are the ones that people generally use.
  
  Shells are made to be used interactively, and PowerShell feels like coding in C#
  
  I can accept a compromise of slightly more verbose and standardized syntax for interactive use when compared with unix/linux and ability to easily automate pretty much everything you can in Windows / Microsoft ecosystem. I am not a professional coder, but I thoroughly enjoy scripting in PowerShell for work and private tasks.
  
  Also, new software needs to be added to PATH manually
  
  True, that’s just how Windows programs work. Executables probably will never be available from shell as they can be from Linux without manual tinkering. Start menu is essentially the alternative here. For those couple programs I need to be easily lauched from terminal, adding paths to PATH variable does not seem too much of an problem.
  
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GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
winget is a poor excuse of a package manager, misses lots of applications, doesn't handle OS updates and AFAIK also no dependencies.

WSL is Linux on crutches since the file IO is done with the subpar Windows API and bloated NTFS killing one of Linux' most effective performance advantage (it runs much faster in vm on Windows even). It's basically the reverse of Wine which makes some Windows applications run even faster than on Windows itself.

if someone grows up with specific OS, they will probably prefer that OS and when comparing it with another one

Cannot say anything about probability but I grew up with DOS and Windows (starting from 3.1). I tried Debian in the 90s and hated it. Tried again almost 20 years later and eventually moved all my machines to Linux (Windows 10 telemetry was the last straw). Still use Windows at work though and hate it even more now that I know how smooth a modern OS can run.

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