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We can do things like installing Ubuntu directly from the Windows Store - even if you despise MS you must concede they are changing for better.

• sandworm101 8y ago
  >> installing Ubuntu directly from the Windows Store I cannot stop laughing at someone seeing that phrase as a positive. A major Linux distro being relegated to a windows app? That's the stuff of nightmares. how about installing Windows directly from the Ubuntu store? Let us see MS Word and Excel executable running seamlessly under Linux. That's what support for f/oss looks like.
  • newen 8y ago
    I find it beyond useful to have Ubuntu as an app in windows.
    • jpetso 8y ago
      As someone who purchased a laptop with a valid Windows license, I would so appreciate if I were able to do run said Windows as an app under Linux without falling into despair.
      • scardine 8y ago
        Personally I would keep windows and just run linux using the Windows Sub System for Linux. At home I have a macbook pro but at work I run Windows10 + Ubuntu@WSSL and it makes for a quite decent developer workstation - 90% of the time I'm using the PyCharm IDE. I refuse to use Linux as my primary desktop OS (Linux paste buffer is a pet peeve of mine).
      • newen 8y ago
        So true. Actually if I can use my MS Office programs in linux I would almost never need to use windows for work again.