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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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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digi_owl ◴[30 Mar 16 17:34 UTC] No.11391204[source]▶
> Well, this has increased the changes of my next laptop being a Surface Book by around 100%.

And thus MS has achieved their goal.

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zxcvcxz[dead post] ◴[30 Mar 16 18:00 UTC] No.11391490[source]▶
Everywhere I go on the internet today everyone seems to agree that the next laptop they're going to buy is a Windows Surface Pro ™.

I'm convinced MS has shills on social media pushing their crappy products. No I will not buy your product just for your crappy OS with a crappy VM layer that just adds more bloat.

I'll program on Linux and if I need to test on Windows then I'll automate the process.

I'm just imagining the headaches people are going to have getting the Linux layer to interact with the Windows layer. There are no answers on stack overflow for this new dev environment.

1. mastax ◴[30 Mar 16 19:03 UTC] No.11392008[source]▶
Yes of course. Anyone who doesn't recognize that your opinionated development style is superior has to be a shill.