the longer I live, the more I want to automate
the more I realize the shell is all I need
…
I mean, I just spent 15-20 minutes optimizing some stuff I do every day about a hundred times in windows only to realize that most of it would have been easier to do if I were just running a unix-based system. Without a GUI. :/
You have no idea how exciting it is to know that it’s not just us elderly folks living in the shell! I don’t know how people survive on computers without a proper shell environment.
My time in windows is about evenly split between web, putty, and vlc; everything else is tantamount to “travel time”.
On the bright side though, most of our friendly unix utils have not-awful windows binaries. Key exception is make; it’s kind of ugly to get going.