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When WSL2 first came out, some losers on /g/ were cheering that it would "make Linux obsolete". Four years later, I think it's safe to say they were kinda missing the point. (vlemmy.net)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

But that ad is ridiculous, because it shows absolutely nothing of value.

I think I disagree with you here. The ad shows:

  • Ligature support
  • Themeing
  • Integration with WSL
  • that Windows Terminal is open source ("Check out our github!" at 0:21)
  • Hyperlink support
  • Unicode support (implied by the emoji)
  • Some sort of package manager specifically for Windows Terminal extensions? (0:20)

Which are all features that could conceivably be valued by developers. At the very least it gets across the point that "Yeah, CMD is shit, but fear not! Now there's a first-party terminal that doesn't suck!". There's no denying that all of this is presented in an "emotion-based" format as you put it, but I would argue that it's a good balance between informative and entertaining. Heck, I much prefer it to the ads you get nowadays on youtube where you can't even tell what they hell they're trying to sell to you.