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

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.

Oh damn! I gotta go update. I know I have one pending.

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..

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.

You can also use `sudo do-release-upgrade` in Bash, I did it today on my work machine

That's NEVER worked for me before. Maybe it'll start working now, but I know many folks who agree it simply failed.

It still doesn't work.

Are you on fast/slow ring?