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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by jhasse on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:07AM (#14742380)
Yes, I would call those changes workarounds for Windows' bugs (incase-sensitive filesystem, no ssh infrastructure, ...).

One of the reasons Git is slower on Windows, is that spawning processes is a lot slower than on Linux. Wouldn't you call that a bug?

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by pjmlp on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:12AM (#14742402)
No, because Windows wasn't designed to make Git fast.

It is a bug on Git side if it fails to be platform independent and requires POSIX semantics to function properly.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by jhasse on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:16AM (#14742421)
I wouldn't call "spawning processes isn't slow" or a fast filesystem POSIX semantics.
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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by pjmlp on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:56AM (#14742592)
Windows has built on the premise of multi-threading and a filesystem with rich semantics, not as yet another UNIX clone.
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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by staofbur on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:00AM (#14742612)
It certainly doesn't have a very good filesystem though. NTFS is horrible on lots of small files due to MFT contention. Even arguing with fstool for a bit doesn't improve it. Check out 50k files on Linux/OSX: 2 mins.. check out 50k files on windows ... 14 mins.

And that's both SSD backed.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by pjmlp on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:18AM (#14742675)
It is just that wasn't designed with that specific use case in mind.

But it was designed with file streams, user ACLs, easy integration points across office networks, extensible to virtual devices, and data safety with actual proper locking semantics in mind.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by staofbur on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:38AM (#14742744)
It's just crap at storing files!
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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by pjmlp on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:27AM (#14742942)
It is your point of view, the enterprise among Fortune 500 companies using it as their IT backbone have another point of view.
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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by staofbur on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:19AM (#14744370)
I work for a Fortune 500 and we don't like it either.
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