The Mac Pro Lives

Re:The Mac Pro Lives by Godel_unicode on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:44PM (#14035334)

Windows key, type "developer mode", hit enter, click "developer mode" (or 3x tabs, space, enter). PowerShell, send "lxrun /install /y"

Done. Pro-tip. Pin PowerShell to your taskbar and drag all the way left. Now you can open it with win+1.

Edit: now with no mouse required!

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by mrkstu on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:40PM (#14036436)

After going to the Windows store and upgrading to Windows Pro. That's another advantage of OS X- no need to target various OS revisions- the baseline OS IS the OS.

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by Godel_unicode on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:56PM (#14037603)

I just sort of assume if you're a developer that you buy the developer version of your software :)

Edit: for reference, home also doesn't come with bitlocker (!?), Domain join, Group Policy, client hyper-v, and others. Don't buy home to do work.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/compare

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by ovao on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:56PM (#14036578)

You've missed a step. After enabling Developer Mode, you need to enable support for WSL in Programs and Features, then restart Windows.

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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by Godel_unicode on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @05:55PM (#14037592)

When I tested it on my laptop out of the box that was not the case. Maybe Dell does that on the xps line...?

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