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Devac  ·  2733 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Linux user's venture into the land of Windows 7

Oh, that's awesome! If you would happen to recall some more tips like that, please share them. :D

I do know about Cygwin but haven't installed it yet. With regard to Powershell, I'll have to find some tutorial that's on my speed though. While I was just a kid (literally, I think I was ~9 years old) when learning about piping and redirections… holy shit, that took me weeks to get the basic idea. Same happened when I was trying out one lisp-like shell for fun, suddenly most of my know-how became incompatible. :/

One thing regarding Win key: that was for a very long time my default key for choosing non-standard letters (all umlauts, Swedish and Norwegian characters, that sort of stuff). It's going to take me quite a while to get over. I was constantly getting annoyed when I was writing a letter to my uncle and instead of ß I was seeing Windows' start menu 'for no reason'. ;)