Run BASH on Ubuntu On Windows
First, this headline is written by the Microsoft people, not me so forgive the questionable wording there. But the article goes a long way to explaining what the feature is and what it is not.
First of all, it is not a full blown Ubuntu installation running concurrently with Windows and sharing cut and paste buffers or interoperable with Windows programs. It is stictly an implementation of BASH, the Bourne Again SHell, command line Linux interface to run some Linux command line utilities.
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You can now run Bash scripts, Linux command-line tools like sed, awk, grep, and you can even try Linux-first tools like Ruby, Git, Python, etc. directly on Windows. You can also access your Windows filesystem from within Bash allowing you to work on the same set of files using your preferred Windows tools or Linux command-line tools:
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So can you try out any of the great Linux GUIs within Windows? No.
Can you try out Konqueror web browser on Windows? No.
Can you cut from Linux command line and paste into a Windows program? No.
If you want to do that stuff, a WUBI installation, featured on every Ubuntu installation disk since 2007 or 2008 gives you a full, interoperable Linux installation working within Windows. It does everything the new Windows Subsystem for Linux does and lets you actually use the operating system in its entirety.
Windows Subsystem for Linux available with Windows 10 Insider Preview build 14316 and coming to Windows 10 general users later. Yawn!
