This is regarding "version one"
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
Sometimes known as Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows
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 I darken its background colour
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Chocolatey: babun
https://babun.github.io/
A customized Cygwin for Linux on Windows: Zsh, Bash, Git and other Linux software, all pre-configured.
Can install other software provided by Cygwin.
My configuration specific to Babun is currently scattered throughout my git repository, just findinall Babun (using my findinall() )
TODO - add my notes, and scripts
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Provides a reasonable environment for working with Git while trapped on Windows. A console window with Bash, various everyday linux console applications, and git.
I loved it, and used it regularly for sane scripting when trapped on Windows, via bash, as well as for git itself.
I replaced it with Cygwin/Babun.
Not related to Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Goal:
Have Windows not be confused about the Linux partition.
Instructions taken from Arch Linux's advice. (Original source)
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update 2 - this is basically pointless with contemporary hardware and software. Just use the defaults for something like cgdisk or GParted:
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-specify-partition-alignment [ 1 ] was https://gparted.sourceforge.io/display-doc.php?name=help-manual#gparted-specify-partition-alignment
Use MiB alignment for modern operating systems.
...The Cylinder/Head/Sector values reported by modern disk devices no longer have a direct physical relationship to the data stored on the disk device. Hence it is no longer valid to use this alignment setting to achieve enhanced performance.
update: cgdisk, when beginning with a new partition table, when creating the first partition, automatically creates a small empty partition before it, and thus is said to align everything properly. I haven't double-checked this.
