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Con Is a shell, not a terminal emulator
While Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is great, it's a shell and not a terminal emulator. This means you are stuck in the same old window as with cmd or powershell, no tabs, no logging, etc.
WSL is a subsystem that allows ELF binaries to run on Windows.
Conhost is the terminal emulator that gives you access to a shell on Windows, whether that is cms.exe, PowerShell, or any of the Linux distributions in the Windows Store.
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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
6 years ago
Interesting effort, but still so many rough edges. Additionally, Microsoft support is horrible... If you have a choice, don't waste your time like I did, save yourself a bunch of time and just use Arch
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Without full login support, non-bash shells can be difficult / hackyBash on Ubuntu on Windows
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