• amanwithausername@vlemmy.netOP
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    They were really trying to pander to developers back then… What shows it best is their ad for windows terminal that I swear has more production value than most of Nike’s advertisements. You know you’re desperate when you go this hard on advertising a bloody terminal

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      1 year ago

      Hey now, as someone who works in a 100% Microsoft shop, WSL2 and the Windows Terminal are the only things keeping me sane. Please MS, keep pandering.

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        I second this. WSL and windows terminal are both part of my daily toolbox and I love them both dearly.

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        Absolutely love the new Terminal app - anyone having to work on windows machines knows much value it finally adds over the ancient cmd/pwshell.

        This is one of the core apps I install on any windows rig now

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          Being very familiar with bash/zsh etc, and somewhat forced to use Windows, I’ve tried to learn use PowerShell. My impression is basically, what? Why would I do this? The design is intriguing but the verbosity is awful.

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            It is not meant just for powershell; it combines all the shells on windows plus support of fit, bash/zsh in WSL.

            I use Linux daily for development and a MacBook for a laptop; having to go from extensive terminals back to shitty blue windows was painful.

            The new Terminal has been the best addition MS has added to windows in a long while.

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              Sure, I gather that the topic is something other than regular PowerShell. This is actually the first I’ve heard of it. I’ll check it out, thanks!

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      Well, if something in Windows did need an ad for developers, it’s the terminal. Advertising it here was the correct choice.

      But that ad is ridiculous, because it shows absolutely nothing of value. It’s all emotion-based “look how nice it looks” stuff.

      • amanwithausername@vlemmy.netOP
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        But that ad is ridiculous, because it shows absolutely nothing of value.

        I think I disagree with you here. The ad shows:

        • Ligature support
        • Themeing
        • Integration with WSL
        • that Windows Terminal is open source (“Check out our github!” at 0:21)
        • Hyperlink support
        • Unicode support (implied by the emoji)
        • Some sort of package manager specifically for Windows Terminal extensions? (0:20)

        Which are all features that could conceivably be valued by developers. At the very least it gets across the point that “Yeah, CMD is shit, but fear not! Now there’s a first-party terminal that doesn’t suck!”. There’s no denying that all of this is presented in an “emotion-based” format as you put it, but I would argue that it’s a good balance between informative and entertaining. Heck, I much prefer it to the ads you get nowadays on youtube where you can’t even tell what they hell they’re trying to sell to you.