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> The new Linux subsystem thing is a god-send. Does that mean I get a UNIX env/shell on windows?

• nikofeyn 10y ago
  yes.
• UnoriginalGuy 10y ago
  Yes. Ubuntu 14.04 specifically[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux
  • Bedon292 10y ago
    And 16.04 is on developer preview, so that should hopefully be coming to everyone soon. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/release_notes#build-14951 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/release_not...
• shams93 10y ago
  The only painful bit is that they don't yet support the nvidia drivers, I'm doing rnn under the linux subsystem and it works great except I'm hurting for gpu access. If you plan on using windows subsystem for linux for machine learning don't bother spending money on a GPU https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/16108045-opencl-cuda-gpu-support https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con...
• stinos 10y ago
  Yup, and to my (and many others' surprise), this thing works actually very well. Not every single app will run but all of the basics for what we need here (mainly gcc) seem to be fine. And it runs graphical apps as well: run an X server on Windows (Moba XTerm or so), export DISPLAY=:0 and of you go. Only tried it with SublimeText so far and that worked out so no complaints yet.