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Ubuntu on Windows

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rocky1138 ◴[] No.11391671[source]
Is this better, the same, or worse than git bash?
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1. ibrahima ◴[] No.11391714[source]
Better, it seems like this is literally running the same Linux binaries as would run on Ubuntu on Windows. Git bash uses msys so those binaries are recompiled for Windows. And he casually mentioned apt, which is pretty crazy if they can actually have the standard apt repositories working on Windows without modification.