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Quote:"...or, god forbid, suffer through the ancient CMD.EXE console". What's wrong with cmd.exe? It's a good tool

Quote: "and the fact that WSL continues to be separate from the native Windows environment shows. Even though I was quite hopeful, I cannot use WSL as my daily driver because I need to interact with “native” Windows tooling." You do know CygWin exists, yes? Quite good and get this, exists from the moment Win95 came to existence.

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This is the first time in a long time I've heard anyone refer to cmd as a "good tool". It's a legacy from DOS. Not in the literal sense of course but in the sense of the builtins, syntax and the horrendous BAT.

Mind you DOS had a lot of fans even in the late 90's/00's so of course it had its advocates. But they are much rarer nowadays.

It's possible to interact with native windows tooling from WSL.

Example: $ echo "test" > test.txt & notepad.exe test.txt

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