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You are talking about enabling insider preview which takes around a day to kick in and offer you the update. Since bash on windows is not included on the stable "branch" you have to go through the hoops to get it. This has nothing to do with the feature itself, which takes even less to install than pulling the Ubuntu image off docker hub.

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I found it really clunky. I wanted a thing, and it made me wait nearly two days to get that thing; and it was confusing, to boot; I kept following the instructions and not seeing the service I expected to see. I now understand the process and what it was doing during all that time (er, actually, I still don't know what it was doing during all that time, but I understand it was working as designed in making me wait), I just think it is a clunky process that exhibits one of the bigger weaknesses of Windows. Windows simply handles updates and packages extremely poorly compared to Linux.

It's interesting that the answers I've gotten about it being a poor user experience are all basically of the form, "No, that's how it is supposed to work. It isn't a poor user experience." Have y'all not used Linux before? I mean, apt-get and yum are really something special, if you're coming from systems (like Windows or Mac OS) that don't have good package management. Having one universal method to install and update everything on your system, including OS updates, is just wonderful.

Nonetheless, Windows 10 is the best Windows I've used (ignoring the privacy concerns among other things), and I like WSL. It's cool technology and fun to play with. I'm probably installing Linux tonight or tomorrow, but it was a fun week of tinkering with something new to me.

>I found it really clunky. I wanted a thing, and it made me wait nearly two days to get that thing

That "thing" isn't officially released yet, hence the hoops.

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