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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by KirinDave on Friday April 07, 2017 @02:22PM (#14062228)
I do not work for MS. I use a Surface Book, which is a slightly higher end but related hardware.

The biggest frustration about it is that many open source projects only care about making their scripting work on a Mac and UNIX. This is awkward because it means I need to use the Bash-on-Windows subsystem which has no updated to a recent version of Ubuntu and is somewhat challenging to upgrade.

Other than that, it's great. It's a solid devbox (when battery saving mode is off), touch monitors are great for working with touch interfaces, it's very easy to plug into the OS primitives to add things like notifications to your build chains, and the battery life even with docker on is better than my corporate macbook pro.

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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by merb on Friday April 07, 2017 @02:24PM (#14062255)
> Bash-on-Windows subsystem which has no updated to a recent version of Ubuntu

This statement is wrong since yesterday. (2017-04-06)

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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by KirinDave on Saturday April 08, 2017 @11:53AM (#14067496)
As far as I can tell, my statement is not wrong. You may be on a fast or slow ring, but on the normal ring a

    lxrun /uninstall /full
    lxrun /install /y
    bash
    lsb_release -a
Results in:

    Distributor ID: Ubuntu
    Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
    Release:        14.04
    Codename:       trusty
I'm not going to lie, you really had my hopes up and I'm really disappointed.

And the dist upgrade process still just breaks randomly saying, "[Screen is terminating]".

Please tell me what I need to do. :P

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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by merb on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:43PM (#14068612)
no I'm on a normal ring (or is enterprise n different?!) but I installed it via a link inside the updates panel, when you click on updates there is a link to "creators update is out now, click on how to get it" or so. then I clicked got an installer/updater, did it and voila. (i also have access to msdn/visual studio team services which now provides media for the new build)

build number is 1703 and you get it via https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4014184/windows-10-... (there is a download assistent link)

P.S. on a clean install we noted a slightly different install routine.

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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by KirinDave on Friday April 07, 2017 @02:42PM (#14062393)
Oh damn! I gotta go update. I know I have one pending.
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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by merb on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:05PM (#14062594)
not sure if it's available through update, but you can install the creators update manually if not. also after that you need to lxrun /delete or so and reinstall the bash. after that it's on 16.04 and the interaction between windows <-> linux is way better. i.e. running `explorer.exe .` now works..
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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by KirinDave on Saturday April 08, 2017 @11:25AM (#14067359)
I haven't installed the update yet, but purging and installing again I'm still getting 14.04.

I think it must be tied to the update.

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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by Kipters on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:21PM (#14062754)
You can also use `sudo do-release-upgrade` in Bash, I did it today on my work machine
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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by KirinDave on Saturday April 08, 2017 @11:13AM (#14067296)
That's NEVER worked for me before. Maybe it'll start working now, but I know many folks who agree it simply failed.
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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by KirinDave on Saturday April 08, 2017 @12:00PM (#14067534)
It still doesn't work.

Are you on fast/slow ring?

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