Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: dreamer Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: Ubuntu on Win 10 [ yay | nay ] Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <0duemf-2o1.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1553268603 6961 166.84.1.3 (22 Mar 2019 15:30:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 15:30:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.4.2-20171224 ("Lochhead") (UNIX) (NetBSD/7.1.2 (amd64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:3383 Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 22/03/2019 04.31, dreamer wrote: >> I recently returned to unix shell and have found installing ubuntu through the microsoft store quick and painless. Anyone else have this experience? >> >> And if not, what's wrong with it? Seems too good to be true. > > It is not a real Linux, it is not accessing the hardware directly. But > you can run some Linux applications and tools. Just enjoy it :-) > > I have not tried it myself (because my main system is Linux, not > Windows). If it works for you, it is probably easier/faster than a > virtual machine. > > Some people use it simply to be able to run bash scripts in Windows :-D > I just started using it to telnet into a shell account. Its simple to use and works okay, although there's some screen refresh issues in vi. I also noticed one telnet site I couldnt reach via windows/linux under windows was readibly accessible via the shell account. Ping also was not able to trace the route properly under windows. Odd. Thanks for your reply. :)