man/help incompatibility with macOS vs Windows
kelly-sovacool opened this issue · comments
man ls works in macOS Terminal but not in Windows Git Bash. ls --help works in Windows Git Bash but not in macOS Terminal. Is there something we can do (e.g. software to update in Git Bash) to make these OSes compatible? I suspect the Windows Subsystem for Linux would work the same as macOS Terminal. Do enough learners have a recent-enough Windows version to take advantage of WSL?
Sorry @cbkerr that you ran into this while teaching. I'm surprised we hadn't noticed this problem before.
Windows Terminal was just released last week! Should allow our learners to use Bash or Zsh. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-is-now-the-default-in-windows-11/
Polled learners at the 2022/10/20 workshop and maybe 60% of windows users were using Win11 and 40% were on Win10; no one was on an older OS. I don't think pre-Win10 is supported any longer with security updates. I'd be in favor of forcing WSL or seeing if Win10 folks can install the new terminal.
I wonder if we have any UMCarpentries folks who are Win users that could offer guidance here. There's also powershell, but I don't know how that differs from the default Command Prompt