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Ubuntu on Windows

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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.325s | source
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xaduha ◴[30 Mar 16 17:10 UTC] No.11390950[source]▶
> Windows 10 users

> Can open the Windows Start menu

> And type "bash" [enter]

> Which opens a cmd.exe console

Right... Bash is a shell, but your interaction with it is controlled by a terminal program. Unless there are some real changes to cmd.exe t̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ . You can compile a native bash and other utils now yourself, it's not that hard.

EDIT: It's more like a Linuxulator from BSD, which is certainly cool.

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1. to3m ◴[30 Mar 16 17:19 UTC] No.11391035[source]▶
"cmd.exe console" means (presumably...) a standard Windows console subsystem window. This is independent of cmd.exe, but it's common to conflate the two. Unix users often get this mixed up, presumably because they don't believe Windows has any kind of layering or modularity ;)