Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

On Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:03:42 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> I found a collection of Unix-style utilities (ls, grep, cut, uniq,
> etc.) years ago. The .EXEs' date stamps range from 1999 to 2003.
> They're enough for me to sort of pretend I'm using real tools,
> rather than CMD.EXE's brain-damaged not-quite-equivalents.

Thinking about it, instead of trying to graft Linux-style
functionality onto the Windows command line, why don’t they just have
a desktop menu option that says “Open Linux Terminal”. This will
directly open window offering a native Linux command line, where you
can have full access to the Linux environment without having to go
through any cumbersome kind of Windows-based intermediary at all.