Everyone using Windows 10 should install Windows Terminal. It is a vast improvement on the old terminal library and it has some really unique and obvious features.
You have tabs for a start. So you can have three tabs for three different directories you are working on.
You can choose the command shell. So I currently have a CMD prompt, a powershell shell and an Ubuntu shell in different tabs. There are a handful of tools that I don't have on Windows because my policy is to keep machines as close as possible to stock and it wasn't much hassle to just ssh to the linux box. Now I can just open a new ubuntu tab to use dig or whatever.
You can even specify your own shell environment.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 10:10 PM Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:37:33PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 12/1/20 8:45 PM, Greg Skinner wrote:
>
> >
> > AFAIK, ftp client functionality is available in Catalina and later
> > MacOS releases through the Zftp Function System
> > <https://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/programming/linux/zsh-doc/zsh_24.html>.
> > It also may be available depending upon which Perl, Python, or Tcl
> > packages are installed.
>
> There are also multiple Mac ftp clients available through Homebrew. (I
> can't imagine having a MacOS box without Homebrew, just like I can't
I can. (My personal mac doesn't have homebrew, or fink, or macports; just
a small grouping of critical third-party software compiled by hand, and
VMWare Fusion for doing more complicated things.)
> imagine having a Windows box without cygwin.)
My latest PC I kept Windows 10 on for a couple weeks before installing
Debian, and tried out the windows subsystem for linux. It was actually
pretty usable -- the main annoyance was that cmd.exe is a lousy terminal
emulator. But I'm told that there are other options available. I don't
think I would need to have cygwin anymore in order to be able to do my
normal work, were I somehow compelled to use a windows machine full time.
I hope we can all try to keep in mind that others' workflows may well
differ from our own, and that is (usually) okay. (That is, to some extent,
a key theme of this entire long thread.)
-Ben
