I thought it was already a thing if you bothered with VM’s and were curious to see what Ubuntu was like, but apparently Canonical and Microsoft are partnering together to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, no VM required.
With this new addition, Ubuntu users will be able to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows. This will not be in a virtual machine, but as an integrated part of Windows 10.
Ok, so why exactly are they doing this?
Canonical and Microsoft are doing this because Ubuntu on Windows’ target audience is developers, not desktop users. In particular, as Microsoft and Canonical continue to work more closely together on cloud projects, I expect to find tools that will make it easy for programmers to use Ubuntu to write programs for Ubuntu on the Azure cloud.
So is this MS-Linux? No. Is it a major step forward in the integration of Windows and Linux on the developer desktop? Yes, yes it is.
BS. People have been saying for years that Ubuntu is the Windows of Linux, this just confirms it. 😛
It also seems unlikely that Ubuntu will be bringing its Unity interface with it. Instead the focus will be on Bash and other CLI tools, such as make, gawk and grep.
lol yes. Unity and Microsoft’s new definition of the desktop would go hand in hand actually In the sense that I hated Unity with a passion, and despise Microsoft’s hardon for tiles. ffs they still exist in Windows 10’s start menu. I think I know why they’re saying this will be the last Windows, they’re going to call their next OS Microsoft Tiles, and Ubuntu will be there to help make it shittier with Unity.