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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: 0.001s | source
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untog ◴[30 Mar 16 16:37 UTC] No.11390571[source]▶
Well, this has increased the changes of my next laptop being a Surface Book by around 100%. I already loved the form factor of the thing, but lack of bash was absolutely causing me to hesitate and wonder if I could justify doing all my work in a Linux VM or something (I can't).

I'm genuinely very tired of OS X, which (to my perception at least) has gotten steadily worse with every version. I for one will be happy to switch.

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dimgl ◴[30 Mar 16 16:44 UTC] No.11390649[source]▶
Really...? What would you change about OSX? I just switched from Windows to a Mac and I can't see myself ever going back...
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1. untog ◴[30 Mar 16 16:47 UTC] No.11390694[source]▶
Like I said, maybe it's my perception, but I've lost count of the number of times it has failed to connect to a Wi-Fi network, randomly crashed... it's been unable to connect to any links from http://t.co for months, for goodness sake (this has recently been fixed).

I think part of my objections are that OS X used to be absolutely rock solid, around the Snow Leopard era. An entire release dedicated just to tuning up the OS! Unheard of now - I will never install a new version until the x.1 patch is out, there are always huge bugs.

I don't expect Windows to be rock solid, I just don't expect it to be any worse than OS X any more.

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2. dimgl ◴[30 Mar 16 20:22 UTC] No.11392666[source]▶
I haven't had any bugs at all on El Capitan.