Stan Brown wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:12:29 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:13:01 -0500, Art Todesco
wrote:
When Windows 7 support ends, what are you all going to do? Pay for
additional support? Or what?
Nothing. Windows 7 will continue to work better than 10, just as it does
now.

+1 -- well said!

And Windows "support" is a bad joke anyway -- one buggy update after
another, even if you overlook the bloat and spyware.

I would like to have access to the Windows 10 bash shell, but (a) I
can download the gnu version for Windows, or run Linux in a VM, and
(b) I suspect, based on their track record, that Microsoft managed to
bollix up the Windows 10 bash shell.


As long as you know what you're getting, it's not a problem.

Bash shell:

1) No GUI because no Xorg. To run Linux Firefox, you need
something like XMing.exe (a Windows X server, third party).

2) GAWK 4.0 uses Linux line endings. Using Windows text files
as source, means adding a "stanza" to your BEGIN clause, to
fix the line ending problem. In other words, the fit and
finish are worse than GNUWIN32 ports.

3) No physical layer access. No /dev/sda. Just the file system
level is there. /mnt/c/users/UserName/Downloads .

Requires turning on a function in Programs and Features : Windows Features.
Bash shell downloads from the Windows Store, may need to flip the
machine into Developer Mode to support the package. So a few details
are needed to get the job done. I don't think the process is any
simpler than it was on Day 1.

No account is needed at the Windows Store to do this...

Paul