Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Oct 2007 09:08 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
APCMag has a lenghty article on switching from Windows to Ubuntu. "When I was first given this task I had to sit and blink a few times, if for nothing else than dramatic pause. I'm a self-confessed Linux nut, as some of you may know, but even I'm cautious to do away with Windows completely. There's a reason I have a dual-boot Windows and Linux machine. Several of them, in fact. But have I just been conditioned into using Windows because of past experience, or applications, or file formats, or the myriad other reasons that make Windows a comfort zone because it's all so familiar?"
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2007-06-20
I'm required to use Windows at my place of employment, so for the benefit of anyone in the same position let me tell you what I do:
windows console replacement:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
Has tabs and you can resize the window (OMG!)
Bash for Win32. You can find this in a number of places. Get it with a full set of Unix tools.
The combination of these two pretty well simulates the minimal Linux terminal. Works great, I've been using it for at least a year with no significant problems. I found cygwin to be problematic, I didn't need a Linux layer, I just needed a non-crappy console and shell.