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Use Cygwin’s Shell or Git Bash in Windows Terminal

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Recently, Microsoft has made the first stable release of Windows Terminal, a new terminal program for Windows 10. Windows Terminal allows you to add and use multiple shells, like Windows PowerShell, the old command prompt, and any shell in your Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) environments. It also provides way more features and customization options than the old Windows console host conhost.exe, which has been used for command prompt and WSL. …

Share GTA V Game Files Between Steam and Epic Games

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After Epic Games announced that it would give away free copies of GTA V for a week, many people started to claim this gift on that game platform. Even some existing GTA V players who have already purchased the game on Steam had decided to get another free copy so they could have two or more GTA Online accounts. It appears that if you have already installed GTA V via Steam, you still need to download a full copy of the game files via Epic Games. However, by doing some tricks, you can let Steam and Epic Games share the same set of GTA V game files to avoid downloading the game again and thus save disk space. We will use the MKLINK command on Windows, which is not well-known, to create a link to the existing game files. The link works as if the linked files and folders are exactly there, but it occupies very little space. …

Restarting This Personal Site

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I have been planning to repurpose my personal website on GitHub Pages as a blog for jotting down how I play around with different technologies. When I try something new, I usually spend some time reading tutorials, help articles, and blog posts about it. But of course, my reading is not limited to a single resource; instead, I often combine knowledge and steps across multiple resources and produce something not described by any single existing webpage. It would be very helpful if I write an article describing everything I’ve done, so just in case the same task needs to be performed again, the resources I would need could reduce from several different webpages to a single article, which is great. …