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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: 0.23s | source
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zymhan ◴[30 Mar 16 17:09 UTC] No.11390932[source]▶
"Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. Microsoft calls it their "Windows Subsystem for Linux"."

I find it amazing that you can have such a functional Ubuntu environment by translating system calls. Microsoft does have the advantage of Linux being open-source I suppose, while the Wine project had to reverse engineer DLLs. Or have you supply them on your own.

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dec0dedab0de ◴[30 Mar 16 17:23 UTC] No.11391074[source]▶
I would rather have the opposite. I would even pay for an official "Windows on Linux". There is a handful of games I would like to play, but other than that I have no interest in windows.
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1. TallGuyShort ◴[30 Mar 16 19:27 UTC] No.11392220[source]▶
I also would've expected more demand for the opposite. I don't see myself ever switching back to Windows, but I'd pay $$$ to have Microsoft Project fully supported on Linux. I have more than a few colleagues who would be interested in the rest of the Office suite too, but who make do with LibreOffice because other things on Linux are more important.