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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: 0.206s | source
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typon ◴[30 Mar 16 13:46 UTC] No.11389194[source]▶
This might be the most exciting news I've heard in a long time. Being able to use Visual Studio and .NET for web development while using zsh and all the other Linux tools? Dreamland.
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sfilipov ◴[30 Mar 16 14:46 UTC] No.11389628[source]▶
The only reason I can't really use Windows as development OS are the inferior terminal emulators. As good as ConEmu is, it is still worse than Terminator etc. Unless I can run a native Linux terminal emulator, it doesn't make much of a difference to me. Also, the filesystem differences don't help.

I was also running into Haskell compilation problems that were fixed by running Ubuntu in a Vagrant environment but speed was slow. There isn't good NFS support on Windows either (there is some).

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dogma1138 ◴[30 Mar 16 14:56 UTC] No.11389712[source]▶
I would call powershell anything but inferior.
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ljani ◴[30 Mar 16 15:33 UTC] No.11390030[source]▶
I'm always put off by the ~five second startup time when I open PS to start learning it. Any tips for speeding it up?
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1. dogma1138 ◴[30 Mar 16 20:16 UTC] No.11392608[source]▶
Depending what you open, powershell.exe should open as fast as cmd.exe pretty much, the ISE can take a few seconds to load based on the addons you have and how many PS cmdlets you have registered on your system.

As people have mentioned the biggest factor here is probably your hard drive since you are loading maybe couple of 100's of small files when you load the ISE.