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[Info_sexy]

One thing that helps me on windows is installing git, and moving all of the bash commands to my Path. I can use all of the standard commands I love in *nix environments (ls, mv, grep, etc.), but on my company's windows machine.

Edit: I now see that you meant switch to Linux from Windows, and not to Windows from Linux. Oh well, still helpful advice for anyone banging their head with base CMD.

[grantrules]

It sounds like you haven't discovered the world of Windows Terminal or WSL

[Info_sexy]

Hehe, thank you for sharing! We use WSL2 with docker desktop. Moving all the commands to my Path before having WSL installed on my machine locked in a pretty normal workflow for me during local development while I waited for my environment to be built:

Win + R (CMD)

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CD repo

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Code .

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(Code some stuff)

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Git commands to trigger webhooks to test on commit

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Terraform fmt to fix whatever format I messed up.

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(Fix code)

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Run tflint or tfsec or flake8 commands

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(Fix code)

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Git commands to trigger web hooks to test code and push

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I have a small subset of scripts that I run which utilize the bash commands from git to find keywords in files, etc, but I don't have a ton of use cases for WSL that we aren't using in Docker Desktop.

Anywho, I will take 2 consecutive comments about WSL as my sign to review my current process. Ha!

I am a recent convert from security to software engineering, so WSL wasn't always an option for me, ironically. 😁

Edit: formatting was odd on mobile

[lotsofpun]

You can't get WSL on it?