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Bash consoles for windows: Hyper vs Gitbash (my experience so far)

Nadine M. Thêry on July 05, 2019

Hi there! Since a month ago I started working with the command line. I am a windows user (I do not intend to create a debate on Win/iOS) so I went...
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Chardenal Matthieu •

I use cmder with Hyper so i got git-bash in my terminal ;)

Here's the conf in .hyper.js I use to make it work

{
    shellArgs: ['-i','--login', '/k', '%ConEmuDir%/../init.bat'],

    // for environment variables
    env: {
      ConEmuDir: 'C:/cmder/vendor/conemu-maximus5', // path to ConEmu used by cmder
      TERM: 'cygwin',
    },
}
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sara john •

Why use Hyper and why use cmder? And you do not have git-bash installed, correct?

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Andy Li • • Edited

You may also try WSL or Cygwin. They provide more complete POSIX environments than Git-Bash.

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Tehmul Ghyara •

I prefer msys2, easier to carry out a rolling update and it has a lot more to offer than gitbash. (Gitbash is a subset of msys2.)

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EmileO •

I'm also getting annoyed with Hyper crashing a lot! Going with GitBash. Can also load them as terminals in VS Code.