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Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment can run in Windows (wordpress.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the surreal-compatibility dept.

An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: "This is one of the coolest tickets I've seen on GitHub," writes Ubuntu developer Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, adding "this kind of surreal compatibility between platforms is now enabled...the fact that you can execute and use Linux window managers there, without virtual machines, is simply mind-blowing."

"The Windows 10 Anniversary Update coming in August includes an unusual feature aimed at developers: an Ubuntu sub-system that lets you run Linux software using a command-line interface," explains Liliputing.com "Preview versions have been available since April, and while Microsoft and Canonical worked together to bring support for the Bash terminal to Windows 10, it didn't take long for some users to figure out that they could get some desktop Linux apps to run in Windows. Now it looks like you can even load Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment, making windows 10 look like Ubuntu.

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  1. No Thank you.... by LVSlushdat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I used/supported Windows for close to 20 years before I retired in 2010. At that time I decided I was done with using MS products, and moved all of my home machines over to single-boot Ubuntu. After seeing what a "turd_in_the_punchbowl" Windows 10 is, privacy-wise, I couldn't be happier with my decision.. I suppose for those who are *forced* to use Windows, either by their job or perhaps they just *think* they *have* to use Windows, this might be useful, but not for those of us who don't care to be MS's "product" and use Linux natively...

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    1. Re:No Thank you.... by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I use Win to play games and develop. Now I can get best from both worlds, in a single boot w/o virtual crap. For me bash in Win is win.

      You mean like this?

  2. Re:"making windows 10 look like Ubuntu" by wierd_w · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If unity can run, then other more windows-like managers might also. Say Mint's skinned version of Mate or Cinnamon. Might be an interesting way of evading the adverts plastered into the hackjob of the win10 start menu.

    Some part of me sees this as the "embrace" stage of the dreaded trio though.

  3. It's a trap by McGruber · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...

  4. Re:Windows(tm) or windows as in rectangle? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's really not particularly different from the old, OpneNT/Interix/SUA subsystem that MS supported for more than 10 years on NT and XP/Win7.
    They finally admitted to having been handed their asses, and submitted meekly to the idea that the world of Linux kernel development had done a better POSIX implementation than a handful of paid engineers who used to work for Softway.

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  5. Great! by DougReed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So now I can overlay one dreadful GUI with another equally dreadful GUI.

    Why would I want to do this?