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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by 43224gg252 on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @08:19AM (#14743493)
The reason Microsoft built a Linux sub-system into Windows is because Windows wasn't as good as Linux for development.

Microsoft building a Linux sub-system is Microsoft admitting defeat.

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Re:Ubuntu now available from the Windows store by hungerstrike on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:02PM (#14745826)
It depends on the type of software that you're developing.

Do you see any game developers working on Linux? Hardly.

Do you see a lot of IT shops doing development on Linux? Nope.

There are way more web developers on Mac and Windows than Linux.

What kind of dev work is Linux actually better for then? Servers? Most people are using Macs for that and deploying to Linux.

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