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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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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. chao- ◴[30 Mar 16 13:58 UTC] No.11389282[source]▶
I am similar to reacweb. I dual-booted from 2008 through about 2011, then switched to using Linux as my only bootable OS and Windows in a VM occasionally.

I've noticed since about 2013 that I booted into the VM less and less often. The most recent was after maybe 9 months without using Windows? I wanted to check how something related to batch files worked, purely for curiosity (i.e., unrelated to professional work). There being so many updates queued up that I almost said "screw it" to the whole thing, reasoning that I could ask a friend to check easier/faster than the wait was worth.