emacs and gcc - Yes - they actually demoed emacs in the keynote and gcc in the later discussion at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488?ocid=player

emacs and gcc - Yes - they actually demoed emacs in the keynote and gcc in the later discussion at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488?ocid=player https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/P488?ocid=player). So many tools require compiling/building in Cygwin and it'll be quite convenient to just be able to do that without the extra layer. As for Ubuntu's libraries - Aptitude is there and you can apt-get quite a bit. I believe you could -- in some cases -- static link and run in "real" linux. They were pretty insistent that this is "real Ubuntu" -- basically they've done the reverse of Wine, mapping Linux calls to Win API equivalents, so that might open up the scenario you're thinking about.