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Magnus /mem/ Sandberg | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 At my new job I have a Windows laptop as "workstation" doing all the Linux sysadmin tasks...

On third day in the office I now have WSL with Debian running. That gives me a proper Bash in Win Terminal and during lunch I compiled #Emacs 30.0.50 from git repo!

Now I can dive into all the tasks that are part of my new job.
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Ramin Honary | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @9dcf30ab yep. Windows is nearly useless without Emacs or Vim installed, and (of course) I prefer Emacs.
The best thing about Emacs on Windows is that it can run the MS-DOS CMD.COM interpreter in a *shell* buffer, rather than using the default terminal emulator that has existed nearly unchanged since 1995. You can also use Dired to manipulate the filesystem.