From b2a357c0c2c8b8025864f438dba9f4d918f0baa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:49:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Windows blog entry --- .../12-15-windows-customizations/index.md | 113 ++++++ .../terminal/settings.json | 321 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 434 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2023/12-15-windows-customizations/index.md create mode 100644 content/blog/2023/12-15-windows-customizations/terminal/settings.json diff --git a/content/blog/2023/12-15-windows-customizations/index.md b/content/blog/2023/12-15-windows-customizations/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5536620 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2023/12-15-windows-customizations/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +--- +title: Windows Customizations +date: 2023-12-15 +tags: + - computers + - windows +--- + +Since I started at PNNL in summer 2023, +I've been using Windows as my primary OS. +It's going okay. + +The previous time I tried to use Windows was 1993, +and it's gotten a lot better since then. +I'd say it's about as stable as Linux now, +with about the same number of annoying quirks. + +I figured it might be helpful for me to keep a running list of things I've changed, +so when I get a new OS install, +I can sort of quickly get back up to speed. + + +WSL2 +---- + +Step 1 is to set up WSL2. +I prefer WSL2 to WSL1 because filesystem access is so much faster. +It basically runs the same way as Linux on ChromeOS: +as a virtual machine with a translation daemon. + +I had to install +[wsl-vpnkit](https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit) +in order to work with the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client. + +I think WSL2 uses something like Google's sommellier, +to translate Linux stuff like filesystems, X11, and Wayland, +into Windows. +It crashes a lot, +which can make Linux slow to a crawl, +or become unresponsive. +You have to kill the translation layer in an admin powershell +with + + taskkill /f /im wslservice.exe + +Then you have to relaunch WSL2. + + +Terminal +-------- + +Windows comes with two terminals: +Windows Console, +and Terminal. +Terminal is better. +It's actually better than a lot of Linux terminals: +it even supports +[OSC 52](https://github.com/theimpostor/osc), +which few Linux terminals currently support +(OSC 52 is the reason I was using foot). + +The default bell sounds for a long time, and is too noisy for me. +You can change the bell by editing `BellSound` in the terminal's +[settings.json](terminal/settings.json). + +I also set the terminal to automatically close on exit. +Debian had set up a `.bash_logout` that ran something which failed, +meaning bash always exited with an error code, +and the terminal wouldn't close right away. +Removing `.bash_logout` fixed this. + + +Git / Bash +--- + +You're going to want to install git. +In addition to providing git, +it also installs bash and a few other ported tools. +This makes `ls` act normally. +I think it also installs ssh, +but I'm not positive. + + +Visual Studio Code +------ + +These days I'm using Visual Studio Code. +It effectively blurs the difference between Linux and Windows, +at least while you're editing. + +You tell VS Code to use bash by default, +with "Select Default Profile" in the little + launcher thing at the console. + + +Vim +---- + +I also use vim, +though. +I had to edit the system path to include the path to the vim binaries. +I still don't understand how to tell powershell to run an executable by path, +but whatever. +Now I can just `vim file` and it works. + + +Go +--- + +The Windows build of Go has been compiling my code with no changes whatsoever. +Pretty cool. + + + diff --git a/content/blog/2023/12-15-windows-customizations/terminal/settings.json b/content/blog/2023/12-15-windows-customizations/terminal/settings.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8222fb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2023/12-15-windows-customizations/terminal/settings.json @@ -0,0 +1,321 @@ +{ + "$help": 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