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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 4 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.895s | 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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1. niutech ◴[30 Mar 16 19:40 UTC] No.11392305[source]▶
Have you forgotten about privacy issues in Windows 10 or you just don't care?
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2. gpvos ◴[30 Mar 16 20:04 UTC] No.11392498[source]▶
I thought you could turn them all off if you were really diligent?
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3. niutech ◴[30 Mar 16 21:15 UTC] No.11393067[source]▶
Apparently not: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...
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4. gpvos ◴[31 Mar 16 19:09 UTC] No.11399738{3}[source]▶
The leaking random machine ID is pretty bad. The other things seem rather harmless, or you can turn them off.