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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: 0.201s | 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. d2p ◴[30 Mar 16 12:07 UTC] No.11388634[source]▶
As well as what others have said, it might long-term give an easier path for developing things that work across platforms too.

Lots of companies spend a lot of effort to run code on multiple platforms (SQL Server recently announced Linux support; .NET core has supported runtimes on Linux too and tons of OS languages have runtimes for multiple platforms). It would be great for both devs and end-users if the number of things that are different between platforms was reduced.