Linux On Windows - Fucking Brilliant!..
 

I heard about this but never thought much of it - https://itsfoss.com/install-bash-on-windows/

It is Ubuntu with Bash and it installs as a Windows App using WSL - It's totally seamless - No dual boot, virtual machines or any of that shit...

You guys have probably been using it forever and I am behind the times as usual - I'm just blown away by it.....

What would be the purpose? To learn how to use Linux? Is there a good reason for this? I mean Linux is mean and lean on it's own, is it still lean and mean inside of Windows?

It's not for production stuff - More for dev - For example, I can have Apache, NGINX servers etc. running in Linux on my Windows machine locally - I am also playing with Node and Ruby ATM - It can be a bitch getting them to run well on Windows - I can now use them in Windows but running smooth as silk in Linux!..

I would be ideal for me. I currently use a mac so i can use photoshop and Unix command line tools on the same machine. With windows and linux living side by side i could do the same a lot cheaper and ubuntu is what i use for servers so really better to have the same os for development and server.

SED AWK GREP NAME... Lots of fun things in Bash that Windows lacks.

Nothing new, it's been on windows for ages but with different name. But i still preffer to use linux for doing linux stuff then those surrogates.

Interesting. Would it be a good option for me to learn how to use Linux without having to dedicate a machine to it? Or better if I used an old laptop and just installed and learned it there?

Best way to learn it and to make sure in case of fuck up nothing is damaged is to use virtualization software like this - https://www.virtualbox.org/ . You can have millions of linux installs in your windows install.

This looks real good. Thanks, I'll try this out.

Hmm... what for if we have cygwin since 1995?