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[Discuss] Ubuntu Install Question



On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 07:19:42PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 18:44:03 -0500
> Ivan Klimov <iklimov87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > recommendations/layout on partitioning. I plan to use Ubuntu  as my
> > primary OS (50-70% of the time)) and Win10 for those
> > programs/utilities that do not run on Ubuntu. Ideally, to have one
> > buffer partition to exchange between two OS.
> 
> Here's a thing: if you're running Windows 10 then you can install most
> of Ubuntu natively under WSL. Install wsltty (WSL Terminal) and you get
> Cygwin's terminal for your WSL environment. 

I use this on all my machines that don't run Linux natively (replacing
my previous solution of VirtualBox Linux guests on Windows hosts), but
IIRC it only works on Windows 10 Pro.

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