Help: windows CMD giving me cancer

submitted by RatherSmallPotato from self.programming

Is there a mac-like alternative for windows? The windows one is awful, beeps all the fucking time, and none of my special characters work when I'm ssh'ing into something.

Pls send help.

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Elementary OS and Deepin are pretty similar to Mac OS

[–]x0x7 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Powershell is the closest thing to a real shell in windows. Also cygwin if you want a unix command line in windows. You just have to navigate out to your regular files with cd /cygdrive/c/.

[–]RatherSmallPotato[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

But what's with the goddamn fucking beep? Who the fuck would want this? WHY IS THERE NO OBVIOUS WAY TO GET RID OF IT.

[–]x0x7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Then get off of windows. It has a ridiculous updating strategy that should make companies think it can't be a serious tool for a work environment.

[–]RatherSmallPotato[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

tl;dr; I left my job and the mac stayed with them, but I might try to buy it off of them because it's ridiculous to do any work on windows.

[–]x0x7 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You could try duel booting or virtualboxing linux and see if you like its shell more. About 50% of linux users live in the shell so you know it's going to be good. I personally use Manjaro because it's easy setup and it has a straight forward desktop unlike Ubuntu. That and the AUR means you never have to set up a compile for almost anything because someone has compiled it before and turned it into a script. It means Arch based linuxes like Manjaro have the largest software library of any OS that can run after a one command line install.

[–]m68k 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Which beeping? PC speaker beeping? If so, just disconnect the PC speaker. IIRC, CMD was always crap.

[–]the_real_farfetchd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Windows Terminal for a better terminal and WSL for a usable shell.

[–]RatherSmallPotato[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Windows Terminal for a better terminal

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