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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: 0s | 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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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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jarcane ◴[30 Mar 16 13:33 UTC] No.11389098[source]▶
Games.
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1. 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.