Same. Well, not forced, but using Linux would just make everything more difficult. I like being able to drop to a shell and use a Linux environment with its useful utilities to manipulate stuff on my Windows PC.
Yeah, I could use mingw, but that is a pain, and I can’t just apt install stuff.
Not the same as apt, but there’s Chocolately, which is actually a legitimate package manager for Windows.
choco install firefox
There’s also a package called gsudo which allows you to preface a PowerShell command with sudo to run it as an administrator. It will cause a UAC prompt.
Same. Well, not forced, but using Linux would just make everything more difficult. I like being able to drop to a shell and use a Linux environment with its useful utilities to manipulate stuff on my Windows PC.
Yeah, I could use mingw, but that is a pain, and I can’t just
apt installstuff.Not the same as
apt, but there’s Chocolately, which is actually a legitimate package manager for Windows.There’s also a package called
gsudowhich allows you to preface a PowerShell command withsudoto run it as an administrator. It will cause a UAC prompt.