Interop between Ubuntu and the Windows Subsystem for Linux

I wish microsoft would stop producing 32 bit windows, its just an excuse for hardware manufactures to get away with pre-loading windows on sub-standard hardware.

I hope that Arch will take off on WSL [1], it's early stages still but it would be good to not be limited to ubuntu.

1. http://www.infoworld.com/article/3120888/open-source-tools/n...

I switched. The customizability of linux isn't there which I sorely miss, but now my laptop runs quietly and gets 8 hours of power as opposed to 4-5

Depends what you're doing.

For most technical work, hacking, most coding, Linux is the way to go. .NET being a notable exception. I don't have experience of powershell but it doesn't make much sense to me to use anything but *NIX if you're hacking, eg bash is the de facto standard shell.

If you're using a laptop, Windows still has big advantages in terms of drivers, "just working" etc. But then I'd buy a MacBook anyway.

The general UI is fine with Windows 10. I actually prefer the task bar to OS X's dock and definitely to Unity.

But overall I find things still don't work here and there. Stuff randomly crashes still, you do find yourself restarting and reinstalling things. And I've only been using it rarely (colleague insist on using Windows).

In a word, I guess, "no".

I've been using linux since 2001, but I do hop around from OS to OS depending on what's mandated at my current place of employment.

If you just focus on the LXSS, windows 10 isn't bad[0]. It's still effectively beta, so there are things it can't do, like list running windows processes and kill them from the command line or launching a windows app[1].

Development is identical between my ubuntu machine and my windows machine. I use ack, vim and other command line tools as my IDE and I haven't noticed much difference between the systems. I do occasionally run into an issue with live code reloading systems (like middleman-livereload). It looks for a valid ip address to use instead of just using 127.0.0.1, but the networking subsystem hasn't been exposed to LXSS yet, so it errors out. webpack-livereload works fine though as does apache and mysql.

[0]: there are many, many other complaints I have about the OS. I use it right now because of the better driver support and video games.

[1]: I think they added that just recently, as per https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/interop?f=2...

Wow, Windows has a tiling window manager? You don't mean window snapping hopefully, or do you?

Why bet on one horse? They are just spreading the risk and cater to different needs.

The first is to draw devs away from OSX and onto Windows laptops and desktops.

the second is to get their .NET stuff into the cloud.

MS have always been about controlling the stack under their "total cost of ownership" pitch.

It wouldn't have made business sense back then.

It did actually, even longer ago[1]. I used Interix for a while, but it required (in my experience) an even greater love for yak shaving than most unices and was eventually scrapped. I'm excited to see whether this new attempt will work.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix