Note: I do not maintain this gist anymore, but people report that it still works. Please check the comments for any revisions or extra things you should take into consideration.
As of writing, the Debian distro for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is quite old.
You can get more up-to-date package managers, text-editors and compilers by upgrading WSL to Debian 12 (current testing).
- Root required
- Use at your own risk, preferably on a fresh installation.
Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.
Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.
The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.
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