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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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. twoodfin ◴[30 Mar 16 12:23 UTC] No.11388706[source]▶
My guess for the marketing target is developers who use Macs because their tools of choice are native to POSIX, with Windows API implementations as second-class citizens at best.

Maybe things have improved since, but at least a few years ago, it was always a crapshoot to try to get some new open source tool set up on Windows/Visual Studio, vs. batting close to 1.000 on Mac with configure && make && make install.

Another way to put this is that the world Terminal.app gives you access to is a huge selling point for developers, and this is part of Microsoft's attempt to provide something as useful.

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2. b34r ◴[30 Mar 16 14:04 UTC] No.11389325[source]▶
They haven't and this is exactly it, as least for me as a web developer.