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Ubuntu (CLI) now available on the Windows Store

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wraith808:
But what's wrong with building software on a real Linux system?

I'm not building software on/for/with Cygwin, just using it as a bash-like scripting environment to avoid the horrible cmd scripting, and re-use it on a real Linux box, if I want it. Powershell isn't going to fix that in the near future, and I'm not fixing the PS-blindness in my head for a while either :o

Most of the stuff I build is either Java or C# (also on Linux, see SedTester ;)) and a really small portion of C/C++ (next to a sleuth of other languages like Cobol, Delphi and whatnot), and a lot of that can also run on some taste of *ux OS.

The current offering is still quite restrictive, and keeps being restricted to insider previews it seems, I recall it was available a year ago, before the 1607 release of Win 10? Or was that another incarnation/beta. (MS policy: Buy our next version!) ?
-Ath (July 11, 2017, 03:32 PM)
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It's not restricted, I have it on my Windows 10 installation, and I'm in the slow ring.  It works for everything I want it to do- building firmware and flashing hardware, and developing for remote systems and testing it before dockerizing it.  And I don't have to maintain a linux system.  I want to work on it, but don't want to maintain it.  That was one of my biggest stopping points when I tried Linux before.

Deozaan:
The current offering is still quite restrictive, and keeps being restricted to insider previews it seems, I recall it was available a year ago, before the 1607 release of Win 10? Or was that another incarnation/beta. (MS policy: Buy our next version!) ?
-Ath (July 11, 2017, 03:32 PM)
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Before, you had to enable some advanced and somewhat hidden features within Windows 10 to enable the Linux shell. Now it's as easy as joining the Insider program and clicking install from the Windows Store. I suspect that in the future it will no longer be restricted to Windows Insiders and anyone will be able to install it from the Windows Store.

I have software that I've purchased from the store, and I never use it, because I hate having to go into the stupid interface of the start menu in order to get to them.-wraith808 (July 11, 2017, 01:00 PM)
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I'm not sure what you mean with this one. Are you not able to create shortcuts for Store apps? I rarely use the start menu these days anyway because it's so much easier to just press the Windows key and type the first few letters of whatever I want to open.

wraith808:
I have software that I've purchased from the store, and I never use it, because I hate having to go into the stupid interface of the start menu in order to get to them.-wraith808 (July 11, 2017, 01:00 PM)
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I'm not sure what you mean with this one. Are you not able to create shortcuts for Store apps? I rarely use the start menu these days anyway because it's so much easier to just press the Windows key and type the first few letters of whatever I want to open.
-Deozaan (July 11, 2017, 04:58 PM)
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You weren't able to make shortcuts for store apps before.  They backdoored a fix for this in one of the later releases.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/5328/windows-10-tip-create-shortcuts-for-universal-apps

It's still a pain, but at least it's doable now.  I don't use the standard way of launching - I use truelaunchbar, so I need real shortcuts.  But even with that, I wonder about integrating in to ConEmu or Console64.  Currently, it's easy to set it up as a different shell.  Not sure how it will be with this.

Looking at it, you still have to go through the same steps, which is strange.

Deozaan:
Looking at it, you still have to go through the same steps, which is strange.


-wraith808 (July 11, 2017, 05:10 PM)
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Hmmm, yeah, I missed that. Interesting. :huh:

4wd:
Before, you had to enable some advanced and somewhat hidden features within Windows 10 to enable the Linux shell. Now it's as easy as joining the Insider program and clicking install from the Windows Store.-Deozaan (July 11, 2017, 04:58 PM)
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This is just a different way to get the Windows Subsystem for Linux that was available after the Anniversary Update, isn't it?

No special requirements other than Anniversary Update and 64bit - that's all I had when I installed it.

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