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Windows Emulation on Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Virtual machine is the recommend way to emulate Windows working environment on Linux.

Windows Virtual Machine

  1. A Windows virtual machine (e.g., using Virtual Machine Manager) provides a full working Windows …

Tips on "sed"

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Alternatives

  1. sad is a simpler alternative to sed. sad is implemented in Rust and has built-in integration of fzf, which makes it easy to visually inspect changes.

  2. For complicated text substitutions …

Rip Is rm Improved

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rip2 is the successor of rip.

Installation

cargo

cargo install --locked rip2

icon

Or you can use the following command if you use the tool icon. Notice that icon automatically configures rip to add a symbolic link to /usr/local/bin.

icon rip2 -ic

Good Terminal Apps

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Wave

Wave is an open-source terminal with superpowers, integrating file previews, file editing, AI, web browsing, and workspace organization.

Warp

Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground …