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rashil2000

> ...anything competes with Mac OSX terminal out of the box...

Would you like to explain how? Maybe not iTerm2, but the Windows Terminal is a pretty capable terminal compared to Terminal.app and it's development progress has been phenomenal.

> WSL1 and 2 aren't super approachable even now...

How so? WSL2 ships with a full Linux kernel, the GUI/Audio support has already hit Insiders and installing Ubuntu is literally two clicks on the MS Store.

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Compare the install instructions for a non-Insiders build[1] to the zero install steps to get a unix CLI on Mac OS. (One step if you want homebrew).

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

You're kidding, right? It's less than 5 minutes of setup. We spend more time on Google/StackOverflow trying to find the right setting for Docker or other random things.

macOS is already *nix-based, so that's not really surprising. Besides my questions were completely different than what you answered.

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