![]() Note on WSL: I love it in theory and think that it might make Windows the best development platform in the future (true Linux utilities, native Docker, etc.) but using it in practice feels quite cumbersome to me, as one simply is in a different operating system. This is the best setup I found so far so I’d like to share it. In the end, I switched to MSYS2, installed Git for Windows into it but it also unlocked a world of other packages for me. And while I was at it, I reconsidered my tool chain on Windows. I recently started using Mac besides my Windows machine and some unification is crucial for my sanity, so especially zsh became a priority. Same for zsh, and basically everything else. So when you’re hunting for rsync, you're on your own. The only limitation is that Git Bash comes with a fixed set of utilities - understandably as the project only maintains tools directly related to Git. I still think that Git Bash is the best middle ground for most people: super-easy to install (comes with Git for Windows), has very few issues and you can do almost anything you’d want on a Linux / macOS machine, e.g., rm -rf node_modules, single quotes, Bash scripting, etc. I have quite a long history trying to get “Linux-y” environment working on Windows (yes, I’m stuck on that platform), from enhanced cmd.exe to WSL to Git Bash. ![]()
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