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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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FLGMwt ◴[30 Mar 16 11:40 UTC] No.11388514[source]▶
Would anyone be able to give insight on why this would be useful? Im curious, sure, but I'm at a loss to think of a use case.
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1. eulji ◴[30 Mar 16 12:00 UTC] No.11388600[source]▶
You would not be running ubuntu in virtualbox but "natively" on Windows. Allowing you to have a unix layer for your interpreters,runtimes whatever.

You could still develop stuff for server OS while having the ability to play games without having to reboot or use wine inside linux.