[ThomasGeek]

On windows, you no longer need either with bash for windows you can have a near complete linux experience while running inside windows natively.

[afarrell]

If you can assure me that is the case, fantastic! Do you know of a way to test the UX of ssh from bash for windows for less than $5 ?

[chuckdries]

"Ubuntu on Windows" as they're calling it now is free, enabled via the control panel, and provides a near perfect bash experience. I use it on the desktop I built for VR to SSH into my digital ocean droplets all the time. Super easy to use, just open powershell, run `bash`, then you can run `ssh` like normal. You have access to your windows files with /mnt/c and etc. for additional drives. The only issue is that Powershell doesn't support the full gamut of colors that Bash does, but that support is coming in the fall creators update and frankly it works fine with every Vim and zsh color scheme I've tested.

10/10 developing for the web on windows is finally tolerable

[simonh]

I don't know enough about ssh for Chrome and bash for Windows to get your point. Isn't bash for Windows (as part of WSL?) free? What is it that costs more than $5 using bash for windows but is free with ssh for Chrome? Genuinely interested, I'm on OSX mostly but I'm WSL curious.

[philh]

I interpreted that as them not having access to a Windows machine and wanting to try out the experience for themselves before attempting to teach someone else.

[BenjiWiebe]

I suppose you could run a modern.ie image and use WSL in that.

[pletnes]

Git bash comes with ssh.

Cygwin has ssh as an optional install.

Msys2 too.

Of course, you need to have windows first. MS give away 30-day win 10 trial VM images with git bash installed, or at least they did.

[afarrell]

I..should have clarified that I don't have easy access to a windows machine and don't have access at all to one that I can install stuff on.