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    [–] Matriks404 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    I am pretty sure it won't work 100% like sudo on Unix-likes, so why didn't they come up with different name, like elevate? This command being sudo will only confuse users.

    [–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    I think they want to compete with GNU/Linux and attract its users. They made WSL for probably the same reason. They even have a terminal now that almost doesn't suck.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Except it does..... (Its really slow and clunky)

    [–] SauceFlexr 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Windows terminal is now my preferred terminal. I use it on a daily basis at work, and adding in WSL just makes things easier in general for Windows. My google search history is no longer Powershell eqicalent for X in linux.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    Well I'm glad it works for you. Also I don't think it runs under wine so you are stuck on Windows.

    [–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, when I used it, every command had like a second of delay. It was also buggy. But it has tabs and you can even split the window into multiple panes. So big improvement over cmd.

    [–] BenPranklin 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    How long ago did you try it? I gave the first iteration of wsl a chance and had the same experience, it was super slow especially for things like ls. Its a lot better since wsl2. Probably 90% or more the performance of bare metal install of linux

    [–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I used it last year on Windows 10 (I was forced to use Windows by my employer). I didn't use it with WSL, just with Git Bash.

    [–] BenPranklin 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Also forced to use windows for work. That wasn't the windows terminal program being slow, that was git bash.

    [–] Freesoftwareenjoyer 1 points 9 months ago

    Ah, interesting. I didn't realise that it was slow.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    wsl is good for when ure forced to use windows

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    When searching commands now Windows garbage comes up

    [–] peopleproblems 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    So it's more to poison search results to stifle Linux adoption

    [–] PeterPoopshit 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    That's probably why they named the Xbox One the Xbox One all those years ago. Whenever people googled how to mod an Xbox One to play pirated games, they would keep finding original Xbox crap instead since everyone up until that point called it "Xbox 1".

    [–] JTskulk 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    In typical Microsoft nonsensical naming schemes, they had nowhere to go after Xbox 360.

    [–] PeterPoopshit 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    I gave up on paying attention to Xboxes when they started calling them such stupid fucking shit like "Xbox x series sx". Now you have to be really familiar with Xbox lore to even figure out what the latest current one is.

    [–] JTskulk 1 points 9 months ago

    I pre-emptively stopped when I switched to PC gaming in like 1996 lol

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    They didn’t want to say xbox 2 because it was less than PS3

    But Nintendo had no problems with jumping to 64

    [–] JTskulk 1 points 9 months ago

    This is the real reason, they were afraid consumers would think "3 is bigger than 2 so the Sony one must be better".

    I think Nintendo gets a pass because they never used numbers anyway: NES -> SNES -> 64 -> gamecube -> wii -> switch. The 64 of course was about the hardware technology and not the generation or anything.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    would you like to seach Edge™ with our Microsoft AI™?

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Whenever a windows user Google's how to do something with it the Linux thing will show up. Microsoft might need to rethink this

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    Just block all search results related to linux in bing. There fixed.

    [–] sysadmin420 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    cd c:\folder

    ls Command not found

    Every Fn Time , now they add sudo?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Ditch CMD and use PowerShell like a civilised person. ls is a valid built-in alias to Get-ChildItem. cd itself is an alias to Set-Location.

    [–] sysadmin420 1 points 9 months ago

    I just run Linux directly and skip windows for almost everything.