Hi Jérémie, I stumbled upon this in my search. You might be interested in it. Thanks again! Cheers, Tyler On Sat, Apr 23, 2016, 9:29 AM Tyler James Leonhardt wrote: > > As I understand it, Ubuntu on Windows is literally “Ubuntu on Windows” > > so, as Zsh is working like a charm on Ubuntu, I guess it’s working as > > well on “Ubuntu on Windows” without any change. But I may be mistaken. > > Unfortunately, it hasn’t been working. I’m not sure if this is a zsh issue > or if Microsoft’s subsystem for Ubuntu is just acting up. I found this > issue on the oh-my-zsh repo: > > https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/4984 > > I’m not sure if that helps at all. I was getting the same error. > > I’ll take a look at MSYS! As for “Ubuntu on Windows” I have a feeling the > future is looking bright! > > Let me know what you think. > > Cheers, > > Tyler > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:18 AM Jérémie Roquet > wrote: > >> Hello Tyler, >> >> 2016-04-23 14:51 GMT+02:00 Tyler James Leonhardt : >> > Is support for zsh on Ubuntu on Windows in the works? Zsh being >> available >> > on Linux, Mac and Windows would be incredible. >> >> As I understand it, Ubuntu on Windows is literally “Ubuntu on Windows” >> so, as Zsh is working like a charm on Ubuntu, I guess it's working as >> well on “Ubuntu on Windows” without any change. But I may be mistaken. >> >> > I love zsh so much on my MacBook Pro and now that Ubuntu on Windows is a >> > thing, zsh on Ubuntu on Windows can finally be a thing. >> >> Zsh on Windows has been working great for years without Ubuntu; you >> might want to try MSYS2¹, which is basically “Arch within Windows”. >> I'm using Zsh in it to do “Windows stuff“ and it works as well as one >> could hope. On the other hand, I've been told (but haven't tried >> myself) that the current build of Windows 10 only allows you to do >> “Ubuntu stuff” on your “Ubuntu on Windows” (ie. you can't run Windows >> programs) which for me kinds of defeat the purpose of having Zsh on >> Windows (but I guess it will improve very soon). >> >> Best regards, >> >> ¹ https://msys2.github.io/ >> >> -- >> Jérémie >> >