Once I can have the Arch/AUR repos in Windows, it will no longer be my year of Linux on the desktop. Watching eagerly, but not sold yet.
Ubuntu on Windows
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Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#472Given that I work on a cross platform application for linux & windows... I'll be interested to see if they try to hide some of the more annoying platform compatibility problems.... like the fact that many linux applications assume you can rename/delete a file while it's still open, and windows won't let you. Also filesystem ACLs are quite different on linux and windows, it'll be interesting to see exactly how the one…
Oh and environment variables... Will $HOME be defined, for example?
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#473It'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…
If history continues with that kind of unexpected turns, we might end up on Microsoft/HURD ;)
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#474My heart skipped a beat when I saw that that ssh is going to be available. And tmux is being worked on!
But will I be able to change shells? Will I be able to put zsh with oh-my-zsh on it?
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#475Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Windows uses drive letters and backslashes, unix has a root filesystem with forward slashes. Windows also has mountpoints. When I use a Windows system, I pretend that C: is the only drive, and mount external volumes under the root, Unix-style. I then install Cygwin in the C:\ root, creating the illusion of a fairly Unix-ish filesystem layout.
And you can also use forward slashes. I've used them in applications (Java apps, NodeJS apps, etc) and in the command line since at least Windows 7.
The forward slash (/) as a directory separator has always been acceptable to NT. One source says that it's been acceptable to DOS since DOS 2.0, although I don't have a lot of backing on that.
The only place that / as a directory separator doesn't work is when interpreted by cmd, as it's then ambiguous with DOS-style switches. And even then, modern cmd tries to understand / properly when possible. Most of the time it works as long as it is not the first character of a path (which you would not frequently see in Windows anyway), as there's then no way to tell it apart from a switch with a long name.
The canonical representation of paths in Windows uses a backslash, but 95% of the time the slashes are interchangeable.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
bad build quality. also had issues with humming and generally falling apart in subtle ways while macbooks never do.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#477Surprised I don't see anyone else mentioning this. This looks to me like typical Microsoft strategy that they utilized a lot 25 years ago. 1. when not leader in given market, make your product fully compatible with competitor 2. start gaining momentum (e.g. why should I use Linux, when on Windows I can run both Linux and Windows applications) 3. once becoming leader break up compatibility 4. rinse and repeat Happened…
Microsoft is not the same company it was 25 years ago, much less 3 years ago. Microsoft cares about Azure now, and Azure requires GNU/Linux. It just makes sense for Microsoft to do this, and I for one am pretty excited about it.
Once Microsoft stop charge users of Linux-based products for their patents or at least stop doing that shady way under NDA I'll believe it's not the same company.
So far they get better in communication with open source community, but their business practices are all the same and Windows 10 only prove it.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#478I have been on Unix(Mac/Linux) atleast for 8 years. A lot of developers are buying mac books these days. At this point, even non-technical people are buying "expensive" mac books. This directly affects microsoft bottomline. Obviously, microsoft cannot port mac utilities into windows to reduce the exodus of developers from windows. The stop-gap solution would be to run all "gnu core-utils" in windows natively, the mos…
developers != mainstream
App-stores require critical mass of mainstream users which Windows still has more of beyond anyone else. Developers follow the masses, not the other way around.
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#479Best news coming from Microsoft. I had been struggled for a long time for being stuck in the windows OS on my working PC, hope it's going to be mature and stable ASAP
Re: Ubuntu on Windows
#480My heart skipped a beat when I saw that that ssh is going to be available. And tmux is being worked on! But will I be able to change shells? Will I be able to put zsh with oh-my-zsh on it?
ssh is already available natively if you install msys git