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by 7tsfmCAusrQ 2124 days ago
Yes it's fantastic. Even the small things make a difference - for example, it's really nice to be able to use the same package manager on my local machine as I use on my Google Cloud servers, on which I'm running Ubuntu, instead of having to use brew. I can use GNU variants of CLI utilities like ps, head etc. rather than the quirky BSD variants found on Mac OS X. iTerm2 was binding me to Mac OS for a while, but Windows Terminal Preview is getting quite good, and IntelliJ itself has a very good built-in terminal that works well with WSL2.
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VSCod(e)/(ium) has a very nice built in terminal emulator as well. It's what I typically use on windows.
Thanks, I'll give it a try! I'm looking forward to testing out Win-Kex also.