Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store

Joaquin García

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Ubuntu in the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft continues to bet on Free Software and although Windows 10 is not yet a free or free distribution, the truth is that it is increasingly compatible with the Gnu / Linux world.

Last year during its biggest Software event, BUILD, the arrival of the Ubuntu Bash to Windows 10 was presented. Now, a year later, Microsoft announces the arrival of three popular distributions to the Microsoft Store of Windows 10.

Microsoft Store is an application found on different Microsoft platforms from where the user can install apps remotely. The same operation as the Android Play Store or the Ubuntu Software Center.

In this case, Windows 10 users Ubuntu, OpenSUSE or Fedora can be downloaded and installed along with Windows 10. They will have to go through the same process that they do when installing an app such as Wordpad, Paint, or Microsoft Office add-ins.

Windows 10 will be able to share space and use with Ubuntu and OpenSUSE thanks to the Microsoft Store

Thus, Ubuntu can be together with Windows 10 if the user so wishes, use their functions, their desktops, etc ... at the same time as Windows 10. But they will not really be natively but they will be in a virtual way, at least the part that refers to the Gnu / Linux distribution.

Even though the Gnu / Linux distribution, Ubuntu (or Fedora or OpenSUSE) will be installed will work like Windows applications with Wine emulator. That is, we will see everything on the same screen but really the distribution will be in a virtual way.

There have already been many users who last year predicted that the marriage between Ubuntu and Windows was somewhat suspicious. This news does not change that opinion but union or not union, it seems that Microsoft's world will be more compatible with Gnu / Linux that in the past Do not you think?


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  1.   dextre said
    ago 7 years

    I do not know if it is appropriate to do this but perhaps we are not the linuxers in which gnu / linux is used a little more, now if someone wants to use a distro it will no longer be necessary to leave win2 because now they can have it even if it is virtual but it It may have, I do not know how canonical or red hat or SuSE Linux can benefit from the use of the operating system because I imagine that these companies will have already received a good ticket to appear in their win2 store.

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