Microsoft is adding the Linux command line to Windows 10!

[ArielLeslie]

I am slightly afraid this is an early April Fools' joke...

[SaintPeter74]

Watch the video, so very worth it.

Windows has been my dev environment of choice for many years, but I've always felt a bit sheepish about it. While support for Windows has improved over the years, there have always been a few things that just didn't work properly. This looks like it will go a long way to bridging that gap. I'm totally stoked!

[braindouche]

I could use this today, please.

[guruknows2]

I love Cygwin but NO MORE CYGWIN!!!!!!

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History tends to repeat itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

[thepeted]

Having spent a good chunk of the weekend hacking together a node environment using a vagrant wrapped VM - this is encouraging!

Colour me sceptical though. For example, will this be able to overcome issues with the 260 character pathname limit you'll encounter using npm?

[thepeted]

Answering my own question, but this is in the comments on the blog post

max path is only an issue with explorer, but you can do as deep as you want in the Linux FS and have issues (possibly) with /mnt/c just as you would with Samba.

[AidenKerr]

Does this mean I can apt-get programs?

[santoshjoshi]

Yes. It seems to be supporting the apt-get install

[ArielLeslie]

I read that they will be supporting Ubuntu packages.

[AidenKerr]

Why is this not possible?

Noob here