Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 01:48:33 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> 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.

You mean the pulldown in Windows Terminal that says fedora and when you 
select it you're in Fedora? Have you ever used Windows or do you just 
bitch about it?