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DG: user may not always have Windows Terminal #2

Open chiaryan opened 5 months ago

chiaryan commented 5 months ago

In the quick start section, the user is instructed to open Windows Terminal. However, if I'm not wrong not all users have that app preinstalled on their PC as it's not a default application.

I think you should also direct users to a link or instructions to install the application, or allow them to use any other arbitrary cmd line application like cmd.exe

nus-se-bot commented 5 months ago

Team's Response

Thanks for pointing this out! However, we find that according to https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-terminal-now-comes-with-windows-10-thats-a-good-thing/, it will indeed be a default application pre-installed. image.png

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Reason for disagreement: Hi, thanks for responding.

I'd also like to point out that according to that article, the mentioned Windows 10 version with Terminal preinstalled is a prerelease build intended for beta testing. Windows Terminal was only made the default CLI commercially in Windows 11. See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-is-now-the-default-in-windows-11/.

I don't think it is fair to assume that the user already has Windows 11 with Windows Terminal installed, since majority of users are still on Windows 10 (around 68%) or even Windows 7, due to incompatibilities in hardware or personal preference. See: https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/

Therefore I still think that this issue still has a high chance of causing inconvenience or confusing most of its target audience, and in the worst case barring them from even being able to use the app.