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  • my 2021 Windows working environment

    I would actually rather prefer Windows Terminal over ConEmu, because I assume it will be the new standard in the Windows world – but then in my professional Windows environment Group Policies do not allow “apps” – and then … ConEmu is quite nice.

    Windows Terminal (CAVEAT: did no achieve it):

    ConEmu – a Windows console alternative, where you can paste text w/o using the mouse  😎 

    Last not least: WSL resp. WSL2:

    My WSL is still a pre-GUI WSL, because my Windows 10 is not new enough – I can’t get my Windows admins to update my Windows 10 in order to achieve that.

    Within WSL I run CentOS-7, because it makes me more used to what I need these days.

    And …:

  • my 2017 Windows working environment

    All these packages resp. utilities do not require Windows admin rights for getting them “installed” – actually they do not need “a Windows system installation”.

    Below C:\Users\jhayek I created a couple of subdirectories:

    • opt: every package resp. utility has its own subdirectory below there
    • bin: some .bat and .sh (BusyBox ash) scripts go there

    Packages resp. utilities:

    • GNU Emacs
    • busybox-w32: includes a shell and a lot of Unix utilities
    • Strawberry Perl
    • https://ConEmu.github.io — a Windows console alternative, where you can paste text w/o using the mouse  😎
    • xmlstarlet

    After having worked with this set-up for a couple of days, I have to admit: this is not just a minimalist Unix-ish working environment, but it is rather enjoyable working environment. I do not have the GNU utilities with all their advantages (nice long command line options and lots of features) – but for most purposes the utilities built into busybox-w32 are good enough for my purposes. What a great idea it was to think of “busybox for Windows” a couple of days ago – and actually find “busybox-w32”!!! I had to consider a lightweight alternative of Cygwin, because on my new client’s Windows computers it’s not available.

    ConEmu makes busybox-w32 and its shell (the “ash”) even more enjoyable.

    GNU Emacs is as good as always – I can’t really describe how sad it is to not have it available in a serious working environment.

    Strawberry Perl so far has all the modules, that my utilities need. I am really glad to have that “distribution”.

    xmlstarlet is my XPath and XML Swiss Army Knife.

    With all these utilities and packages available it’s even quite fun to work on Windows 7  😆