Here we guide you through installing Bash on Windows and give you a taste of what you can do-and why you would do it-in the Linux command line.īash on Windows is a new feature added to Windows 10.
But VMs consume a significant amount of resources and don’t provide a first-class Linux experience, as you can’t edit local files or get full access to local drives, for example.Īs the IT world is turning toward Linux for many projects, Microsoft has come up with a new offering to tap into this growing market. Running Linux inside a virtual machine is another option. Over the years, Microsoft has introduced various workarounds for using Linux capabilities on Windows, such as PowerShell with SSH and Cygwin and MSYS. If you’re a developer on Windows, the drumbeat to get hip to Linux capabilities keeps getting louder.
Not to mention the mobile market, where Android uses Linux variants. Microsoft Windows may be the dominant player on the desktop, but the rapidly increasing open source software market-especially for admin and dev tools-clearly favors Linux.
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