Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

On 7/1/26 00:54, rbowman wrote:
> 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?

   Well, I wouldn't encourage anyone, EVER, to
   use Winders  :-)