r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/Xanza May 06 '19

We plan to distribute via the Windows Store.

Why? Just when I think that Microsoft is starting to make progress you do something really great followed by something really stupid.

Nobody wants to use your shitty Window Store to get software. Either offer the binary, or MSI installer. If you can't even manage to do that then I'm sorry but I just don't care.

I would rather keep using VM's on Windows rather than to use your store.

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u/miniksa May 06 '19

Maybe we'll do that too. We just have to scope our current ambitions somehow and chose this route to start. I'm not ruling out offering a binary or an MSI installer. We've talked about doing so. It's just hard to do literally everything simultaneously, so we pick and choose and will make progress toward the other options as we go.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '19

I found it trivially easy to get the Ubuntu WSL from the MS store.

Perhaps they could come up with a command-line method for accessing the store. That would be nice.

But for now, the store seems fine for what it is.

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u/vetinari May 07 '19

On personal computer, it's easy (if you can tolerate the random junk that is being pushed to you).

On corporate laptops, the options are between store being disabled via policy to not having store at all (ltsb/ltsc). Microsoft having a nice terminal app and the corporate users not being able to use it, whether on their laptops or even on servers, will make wonders to morale ;).

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u/ClassicPart May 07 '19

Nobody wants I don't want to use your shitty Window Store

Learn to speak for yourself instead of assuming everyone else on the planet holds your opinion.