Re: Microsoft Success Built On Sabotage And Bribery

On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 04:23:59 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> 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  :-)

That's fine if you're not a working programmer.