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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 11 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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pvdebbe ◴[30 Mar 16 12:07 UTC] No.11388636[source]▶
This has a faint scent of an early April fool joke.
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tempodox ◴[30 Mar 16 13:13 UTC] No.11388969[source]▶
It does, but then find me a Linux user who doesn't dual-boot into Windoze for desktop apps. This way, you save one reboot. I wonder, however, how stable this will be...
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1. bsharitt ◴[30 Mar 16 13:17 UTC] No.11388992[source]▶
I can't think I a single thing I'd need to boot into Windows for anymore.
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2. jarcane ◴[30 Mar 16 13:33 UTC] No.11389098[source]▶
Games.
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3. ausjke ◴[30 Mar 16 13:33 UTC] No.11389099[source]▶
for me it's turbotax that does not have a linux version
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4. typon ◴[30 Mar 16 13:50 UTC] No.11389228[source]▶
Visual Studio is better than any IDE in existence. With ViEmu it becomes even better.
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5. tombert ◴[30 Mar 16 14:05 UTC] No.11389332[source]▶
Unless you don't have 30 spare gigs of storage space...
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6. typon ◴[30 Mar 16 14:39 UTC] No.11389575{3}[source]▶
If by 30 you mean 20 gigs then, yes. Also, 20 gigs on a very decent 256GB SSD costs around $6.40. I don't know how much your hourly wage is, but the time Visual Studio saves me compared to other development platforms makes up for that money pretty quickly.
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7. tombert ◴[30 Mar 16 14:52 UTC] No.11389675{4}[source]▶
I was just being cheeky, honestly, but that price doesn't scale linearly, at least not on a laptop. A 512gb SSD might have a higher cost-per-GB than a 256GB SSD.

I don't run Windows and consequently haven't used VS in any kind of intimate detail, I'm sure it's great if you like dealing with IDEs. I feel more productive with Vim, tmux, GHCI, and GraspJS for doing of my web development.

8. mcroft ◴[30 Mar 16 15:18 UTC] No.11389905[source]▶
Fortunately for me, the only game I really care about (Civ5) is available on Linux thanks to SteamOS. It certainly seems as though I am in the tiniest of minorities, though.
9. rplnt ◴[30 Mar 16 15:20 UTC] No.11389921{4}[source]▶
> If by 30 you mean 20 gigs then, yes.

I'm pretty sure VS doesn't require nowhere near that amount and you are talking about Windows symbols.

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10. tombert ◴[30 Mar 16 15:40 UTC] No.11390086{5}[source]▶
That might be true; I had a slightly tainted image of VS when I had to use it three years ago, and after everything I needed was installed, I only had like a gig left (this was on a weak, underpowered netbook, admittedly).

In retrospect it's not entirely VS's fault, though I just found it amusing how quickly it ate through my storage when Vim only takes like 90 megs.

11. wyldfire ◴[30 Mar 16 16:45 UTC] No.11390662[source]▶
For the past 5-6 years I've used https://taxact.com/ and haven't needed Windows.