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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: 0.541s | source
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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. reacweb ◴[30 Mar 16 13:45 UTC] No.11389189[source]▶
At home, I am using ubuntu since 2009. The first year, I have dual-booted a lot. Progressively, I have stopped. The last time I have booted in Windows was december 2014 to check if it was still working. If a desktop app does not work with wine, I do not use it.

If you can have all the comfort of Linux (huge catalog of software that are easy to uninstall, network transparency, ...) with the assurance that your hardware will be fully supported by the OS, it would deserve a try.

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2. pvdebbe ◴[30 Mar 16 15:22 UTC] No.11389928[source]▶
I had similar progression when I switched to Gentoo in 2007. I would boot into windows maybe every 3 months, and it was always a hassle with the security updates. Wiped out the partition after a couple of years of checking into windows maybe once every 6 months.