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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: 0.5s | 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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1. djsumdog ◴[30 Mar 16 16:32 UTC] No.11390512[source]▶
I love tiling window managers...and real package management... and free software.

Windows still has a ways to go. I think this might make some Windows stuff easier to deal with, but I still prefer jobs where I can run Linux natively on my workstation.

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2. hxegon ◴[30 Mar 16 18:57 UTC] No.11391952[source]▶
I was always grumpy about switching to OS X because I missed xmonad, but then I found amethyst and rebound the keys to be the same :)