Re:From OS X to Ubuntu
by cube2222 on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @01:38AM
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If you don't get it, try it. It's not just bash. It's the whole Ubuntu userspace. Yes, you can use apt-get there.
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See my above reply for details to sibling comment, but basically, dumping a package manager on a running OS isn't the same as having a package manager to properly track installed apps.
This apt-get will only track stuff installed via it, while there's dozens of other stuff that just made it in sideways.
Also, ¿Can I run X, i3wm, etc? ¿Can I get rid of the entire Windows DE?
My point is, I don't use bash, because I want all the above. I've no complaint if you prefer windows, that's your choice. But don't tell Linux users that windows is now the same just because you have bash.
but it's _on windows_ so what's the point?
:P
A better OS stack, where devs are busy moving beyond C, has better asynchronous IO stack, kernel level thread pools, embraces a mixed architecture with separated kernel and personalities, driver crashes don't bring the OS down, embraced by the games and graphics communities, allows for multi-GPU usage ....
Hardware support + you can run the Adobe suites, Microsoft Office, etc.?
I think WSL will be very successful among developers. You can just get any laptop from the store that runs Windows 10 and have Linux running at native speed (except I/O, which is currently a bottleneck in WSL) at the same time without the hardware compatibility problems, etc.