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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: 0s | 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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carlosdp ◴[30 Mar 16 16:48 UTC] No.11390703[source]▶
Yea same here, the Surface Pro is just such a nice piece of powerful hardware and a great form factor to carry around. Having bash/linux subsystem on Windows makes it a pretty damn nice development machine for pretty much anything (web/games/etc.).
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1. zxcvcxz ◴[30 Mar 16 17:39 UTC] No.11391265[source]▶
If you don't mind having an extremely bloated OS, which is why I quit programming on Windows and switched to Linux in the first place. Now they've just added even more bloat and I imagine developing using the "linux environment" will be a huge pain in the ass because it'll basically be like programming on a new operating system.

Can't get node.js to run on your "Linux environment" and access a database running on windows? Good luck finding an answer for that on stackoverflow.

You'll have to target yet another environment for any app you develop. Will it be running on a Windows server? A Linux server? A server running "Windows with bash"?

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2. parasubvert ◴[31 Mar 16 03:25 UTC] No.11394788[source]▶
Bloat is an overused, nebulous concept. Most people actually like rich desktops and lots of features, which is why Mac laptops have proliferated in the dev community.

Things like Node.js already run pretty well on Windows as it is, and MS is building native tooling in Node.js (e.g. their Azure CLI).

With this change, Microsoft is definitely going to encourage a lot of Surface adoption for geeks.