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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by swah on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:20PM (#11393105)
Me too - but why not a Linux VM or a VPS? Its mostly for textual usage, no?

(My own answer is that cheap VPSes are 150ms away from me, and with Virtualbox I had a few problems, always related to Windows file permissions yada yada yada...)

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:59PM (#11393369)
150ms sucks when you're working with multi GB files and packages. Also network security is not ideal.

Nothing beats running and developing on localhost.

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Re:Ubuntu on Windows by whatever_dude on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:44PM (#11393274)
Same. At some point managing permissions and sharing and VMs just becomes a pain. If I can just drop to bash and access my file system... that's all I need/want.
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