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		layer8 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft BitNet: inference framework for 1-bit LL... Just install Cygwin. Not sure what you mean by “default shell”. The default shell on Windows is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell. I don’t suppose you mean booting into Bash. Windows doesn’t have any other notion of a default shell.

faragon 9 months ago [–]

I used Cygwin for more than a decade. I prefer Git Bash (msys-based).

hhejrkrn 9 months ago | [–]

I thought msysgit was also cygein based

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