Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Re:Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux by MichaelGG on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:47PM (#12147972)

If I can figure out if W10 can turn off its spyware, it'll allow me to ditch VMware for most use cases. Since you can run a Windows X server, I can use graphical emacs. If perf is good enough, I'll run a whole WM like XMonad and use Firefox and stuff inside it.

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Re:Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux by MrFlynn on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:20PM (#12148186)

I found that this tool works pretty well for disabling telemetry: https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking

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Re:Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux by jscholes on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:12AM (#12157624)

> If perf is good enough, I'll run a whole WM like XMonad and use Firefox and stuff inside it.

What advantages would this give you over running Firefox natively on Windows?

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