Essentially. They're in no way forcing you to give away credit card info.
Even the title is editorialized in a way to incite hatred against something that's already present in a competing OS. Isn't there an HN policy against such titles?
There are so many (and so simple) workarounds that it almost feels intentional. My favourite one is typing "[email protected]" as email, literally anything as password, and this will throw an error and viola, prompt you to create a local account. Been using this in the latest Windows 11 Dev builds, no MSA required. Even Microsoft Store works without MSA!
Why would they accept a backslash? Backslash is a path separator on Windows. In most Windows programs, you don't even need to escape the space - arguments can contain spaces and it will understand it, like `notepad My file.txt`
The escape character on PowerShell is backtick, and on cmd it is caret. You don't need to quote everything.
You can install SystemD-enabled WSL instances with distrod[0], and they have future plans to allow dual-booted physical Linux distro on a separate disk to run as a WSL instance.
Oh, I apologize! I was under the impression that your executable would work without the /usr/bin/script workaround. My bad!
I was aware of the Cygwin's tmux quirk, but not the script workaround. Thanks again for the detailed help!
Wow, I'd been dying to make tmux work on WT.
I couldn't get your tmux.exe executable to work (it froze WT, in both bash and cmd).
However, the script method works!
Although there's no mosh-server, some people actually ported the mosh-client[1] to Windows using C#. This client is currently being used in the popular Fluent Terminal for Windows[2].
It has a very extensive Lua API.