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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by stcredzero on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:24PM (#14317783)
On the one hand, they really seem earnest about wanting to make Windows 10 appealing to people like me who fled Windows for Unix-alike systems long ago.

I tried Ubuntu on Windows 10, and found it too wonky. I switched over to running Xubuntu in VirtualBox!

It feels like there's different groups inside MS that are working from fundamentally incompatible premises

It's always been like this.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by cryptarch on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:57PM (#14318104)
Xubuntu is lovely, but for the last year I've been on i3/IceWeasel/urxvt exclusively. So much faster and more convenient than clicking and dragging around all the time.

When friends want to use my desktop I change my DE to XFCE for a sec. I also still use the XFCE login screen (because it's easy to install, it works and you get per-user DE defaults).

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