Windows 10: Ubuntu now in the Windows Store

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Ubuntu is there! I found Suse there once - now I cannot, neither can I find Fedora - what is it with the Store search?

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You can install Ubuntu directly from the Windows Store now.

Just open the Windows Store app on your Taskbar

Search for Ubuntu and you should see the option to install it.

 

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I have just downloaded Ubuntu from windows store and earlier I downloaded it from command prompt which was bash on ubuntu on windows. Is there is any difference between them other than scroll bar which is available in ubuntu from windows store?

 

I think the previous versions were some other technology, not the new Linux Subsystem.

 

Thanks for posting this, @Mystere. Who'd of ever thought this would come about?

 

I don't get it.
All it does is allow you to run terminal commands, but not Ubuntu OS? or do you use terminal to download and install?

 

It is the command line interface, without the desktop environment, so you can use
e.g. bash in windows, or ssh etc ... it seems it's for admins more comfortable with unix like tools

 

Well isn't that presish..

So let me get this right, they will discontinue something like Windows Media Center, that still has about 60 million users and support something like this that has how many users? Just how many people actually use this Ubuntu tool I wonder?

 

It is supported by Canonical, and Canonical has nothing to do with Media Center, it's not like microsoft is
hijacking resources to support ubuntu shell instead of media center, i think it has more to do with Azure cloud service running on Canonical server or something like that (just a guess)

 

Many IT pros and geeks will use it I would imagine. Other Linux flavors to come they say.

Like any company, if a product is a looser they will drop it. I'm thinking most people only used WMP for playing movie disks rather than streaming services. Yes, it was nice to use as a home center, but MS was attempting to break into a highly competitive entertainment market, which I would guess failed with WMP.

Anywho, it's been replaced with Movies & TV Store app. Much better app IMO. Check it out.

 

Like any company, if a product is a looser they will drop it. I'm thinking most people only used WMP for playing movie disks rather than streaming services. Yes, it was nice to use as a home center, but MS was attempting to break into a highly competitive entertainment market, which I would guess failed with WMP.

That app doesn't support VOB formats, typical DVDs. It also doesn't support LiveTV. Media Center is the only software that suppoorts DRM channels.

I think WMC biggest problem was that it was years ahead of it's time (like 10 or more). People didn't understand it. You needed TV tuners and there were none available for cablecards until just a few years back.

 

First and foremost, it's a tool used by sysadmins, but more importantly, DEVELOPERS. If you work in corporate America, and you look around, you will find a ton of developers, architects, cloud engineers and the like all developing their software, even for Windows, on a Mac. Why??? Partly because it's Unix like underneath, and the toolset fits their development needs perfectly. I work for a very large organization that is always in the top list of tech companies to work for, and the vast majority of development here works on a MacBook Pro.

Before we had Bash for Windows, we used Cygwin tools on Windows (Cygwin). This allowed a unix like environment on Windows hosts.

Microsoft finally saw this as an area where they could increase the appeal of their OS out of the box and I for one am extremely happy to see these tools added. But then again, I'm a Windows and Linux systems engineer.

These tools aren't intended as much for the home hobbyist or gamer. But it's extremely important to the ecosystem that they have been added to Windows.

 

I've seen people setup desktop environments in the Linux subsystem. For example:

​How to run the native Ubuntu desktop on Windows 10 | ZDNet

 

I think this thread should be in insider instead of general.