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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 3 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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typon ◴[30 Mar 16 13:46 UTC] No.11389194[source]▶
This might be the most exciting news I've heard in a long time. Being able to use Visual Studio and .NET for web development while using zsh and all the other Linux tools? Dreamland.
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sfilipov ◴[30 Mar 16 14:46 UTC] No.11389628[source]▶
The only reason I can't really use Windows as development OS are the inferior terminal emulators. As good as ConEmu is, it is still worse than Terminator etc. Unless I can run a native Linux terminal emulator, it doesn't make much of a difference to me. Also, the filesystem differences don't help.

I was also running into Haskell compilation problems that were fixed by running Ubuntu in a Vagrant environment but speed was slow. There isn't good NFS support on Windows either (there is some).

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dogma1138 ◴[30 Mar 16 14:56 UTC] No.11389712[source]▶
I would call powershell anything but inferior.
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ljani ◴[30 Mar 16 15:33 UTC] No.11390030[source]▶
I'm always put off by the ~five second startup time when I open PS to start learning it. Any tips for speeding it up?
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1. ygra ◴[30 Mar 16 15:44 UTC] No.11390112[source]▶
Speed was an issue on Windows 7 (PSv2), but they sped it up considerably in Windows 8 (PSv4, I think). Maybe installing the current PowerShell version helps; I doubt it's inherent in the OS.
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2. vetinari ◴[30 Mar 16 17:05 UTC] No.11390899[source]▶
Can confirm, it starts immediately in 2012r2.
3. ljani ◴[30 Mar 16 18:30 UTC] No.11391736[source]▶
I'm on Windows 10 and I agree it has improved a lot since Win7, but it's still not pleasant. I'm rocking a 7200rpm spinning disk, so as suggested by adiabatty, getting an SSD might help.