/home/

In this part I set up my $HOME directory and environment, with all the basic tools needed to actually be able to use WSL.

Note

Note that some sections in the following chapters are seperated into a Xonsh and Nushell tab. Select the one corresponding to the shell you wanna use.

Nushell

I use nu.

Follow these tabs, if you want to use nu, too.

Xonsh

I previously tried xonsh, although I noticed several things that led me back to Nushell:

In theory, it is nice to be inside a python-esque environment. In practice, though, I can’t really use conda environments, as I install it as a system package, neither did it work well with nvim and/or the conjure plugin.

I found myself missing the ease of nu’s ls | sort-by modified syntax.

Furthermore, I’m at a point where I thing it’s better to transition from a quick and dirty .nu script to an entirely different language, be it Python, Babashka/Clojure, or similar, than to struggle with the limitations of a Python superset in the form of .xsh files.

Bad editor support, no good REPL workflow and many more nuisances made me switch back.

Follow these tabs, if you want to use xonsh anyways.