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Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by heroprotagonist on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:09PM (#13341161)
Actually, I might be wrong. I thought it required Hyper-V, since it ran an Ubuntu under the covers, and that assumption might incorrect.

Specifically, it's enabling Hyper-V which makes Windows incompatible with VMware. The incompatibility results in more issues than just those with the bash shell. The big one for me is Docker for Windows:

https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-for-windows-w-vmware-inst...

I think I will just try it out and revert back if there's an issue, since I can't find clear documentation about it being incompatible. So I assume I'm wrong.

I can let you know if you like.

Re:Apple cuts Tim Cook's pay 15% for missing sales goals by sitharus on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:26PM (#13341262)
It does run an ubuntu/GNU userspace, but not ubuntu Linux. WSL is a Linux ABI layer for Windows so no virtualisation is needed. It's more like WINE.