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It kinda makes me regret my MBP purchase last fall. I really wanted a Surface Pro but I couldn't deal with developing on Windows.
Couldn't you just boot linux on the surface?
After all, there's not that much ground-breaking "news" in this story.
About the technical part:
1. I wish they wouldn't distribute it in cooperation with Canonical, a company with a reputation that is rapidly decreasing for very good reasons. 2. I, for one, would surely have preferred the `ksh` which came with earlier "Unix for Windows" packages, IIRC it was the "MKS ksh", but I guess they had a reason. 3. I'm afraid of what this means for the PowerShell.
It's time that people stopped using the term 'Windows' for this operating system. The Free Software Foundation created the bulk of the userspace, under terms that allow anyone to share, modify and fork the programs, and then Microsoft came along with the one last missing piece of the puzzle - the kernel, and completed the full operating system, which, to be frank, users find completely unusable and worthless without…
Many computer users run a modified version of the NT system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of NT which is widely used today is often called “GNU/Windows”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the NT system, developed by Microsoft's NT team.
There really is a GNU/Windows, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. GNU/Windows is the userspace: programs that you run as the user. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. GNU/Windows is normally used in combination with the NT kernel: the whole system is basically GNU with Windows added with NT added, or GNU/Windows/NT. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Windows/NT.
Does this means that persistent* command line history will work out of the box on Windows? If this is the case, wow, we waited and waited and waited and it is finally here, thanks Ubuntu! *persistent: open command line, write something, close command line, open command line, arrow up\down shows last executed command. And yes, I know persistent command line history can be set via power shell, but it needs to be set (i…
[1]: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MakingABetterSomewhatPrettierB...
How in God's green earth did Canonical think helping Microsoft with this was a good idea for the Linux community?
-It solidifies Bash as the dev. shell of choice -It facilitates app cross comparability -For Canonical, it reinforces the idea that Ubuntu == Linux, which is really good for their bottom line -I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft forked over a solid amount of cash
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I have a ThinkPad Yoga and an older ThinkPad T520. Both are pretty awful machines. Plus I really don't trust Lenovo anymore. If I were buying a Windows machine, the only one I would consider is the Microsoft Surface Book.
why don't you trust Lenovo?
Although, in my opinion, I wouldn't trust any laptop hardware company out there enough to use the system that came pre-installed with it, but that's for another discussion.
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It kinda makes me regret my MBP purchase last fall. I really wanted a Surface Pro but I couldn't deal with developing on Windows.
Couldn't you just boot linux on the surface?
Now windows users can learn bash cmd line and switch completely!
I am sure there is a firestorm of opinions in the hundreds of comments below this textbox but frankly I just want to say that this was the best fucking news I have had all year.
I guess that fixes bug #1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1