Dreams come true: Compiling and running linux apps on windows :)

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On Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 08:07:37 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 03:06:27 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Good news, I'm really not that keen to write a powershell 
>> script.
>> What OS does it detect and download?
>
> I am not sure how to get this information.
> The windows functionality is labeled as "Bash on ubuntu on 
> windows".
>
> I executed the commands from the script manually:
>> uname -s
> Linux
>
>> uname -m
> x86_64
>
> Kind regards
> André

It's offer full Linux Kernel API to *nix applications. Even a VFS 
following the Ubuntu filesystem conventions, where Windows drives 
are mount like /mnt/c , /mnt/d , etc. Really you have a full 
Ubuntu working on your Windows on some kind of inverse Wine.

However, the new console of Windows 10 (that got a lot of 
improvements), have some nasty problems related to keyboard input 
that make using some ncurses, and similar, more problematic. For 
example, arrows on Vim/NeoVim not ends to work correctly. And 
actually using conemu and similer alternative terminals are hit 
by the same issue.
Also, there is some people that manage to run X11 apps, using a 
Windows native X11 server plus (a full GNU/Linux desktop).

This is really great for Linux & Unix fans that need to work on 
Windows by causes outside of his control. Sadly, where I work, we 
are using Windows 7, so I need to use to Cygwin and his "limited" 
set of packages.