Ubuntu on Windows

Posted Mar 31, 2016 10:29 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Ubuntu on Windows by rsidd
Parent article: Ubuntu on Windows

I still fail to understand why people never try to apply logic to announces. Microsoft have failed - and now it's time to change the strategy. By now it's obvious that Linux will not die any time soon. It's future on the servers it's secure (heck, HPC is almost entirely Linux nowadays) and it's winning on mobile.

These successes mean that Linux desktop could survive on coattails of server/mobile development. What Microsoft needs to do to protect itself? Well, the answer is obvious: make sure developers could develop all these mobile and HPC applications on Window. And it's also entirely obvious that development of desktop Linux applications should be as hard as possible. That's not hard to achieve, really: just make sue there's no GUI.

Ubuntu on Windows

Posted Mar 31, 2016 12:10 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

>And it's also entirely obvious that development of desktop Linux applications should be as hard as possible. That's not hard to achieve, really: just make sue there's no GUI.

Just use Cygwin's X server via TCP. Performance won't be amazing, but outside of games it's unlikely to matter.