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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 dbreeze · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Part of earning my living is done using the gEDA tools to reverse engineer old CNC controls. Linux is no toy for me. I'm sure there's a few network admins and others who are also glad there's a legit alternative to the Microsoft universe for doing real work.

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  2. "making windows 10 look like Ubuntu" by wvmarle · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all those decades of various Linux distributions unsuccessfully trying to look like Windows, now you can make Windows actually look like one such distributions - Ubuntu.

    Oh, the irony. It seems that the Year of Linux on the Desktop has finally arrived, but not in a way anyone could have anticipated :)

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

    GREAT!

    Now you can run Unity, the sluggish alternative to Gnome, on top of Microsoft's latest offering - famous for continuous 100% disk I/O utilization for system services!

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    Never been known to fail..."
  4. It's a trap by McGruber · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...

  5. Re:How does it work? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's linked in the second page attached to this story:
    https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/637

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