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2049 points bpierre | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | source
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frozenport ◴[30 Mar 16 17:40 UTC] No.11391280[source]▶
I don't get it. What's the use case for a few core utilities running natively?
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1. typon ◴[30 Mar 16 17:45 UTC] No.11391338[source]▶
It's not a 'few' core utilities. It's any packages available on Ubuntu.
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2. frozenport ◴[31 Mar 16 04:05 UTC] No.11394914[source]▶
All the CLI packages I want that are on Ubuntu are also on Windows. I don't see Windows users dying for lack of applications...