And a command line is not a windows environment. So unless they put hooks into 
the DirectX  directly (ugh), then there is still the need to have X11 hanging 
around there somewhere. But maybe then again apt-get install X11* 

-mjl

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> On Mar 30, at 1:44 PM, W. Trevor King <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Lukas Weber wrote:
>> FYI, apparently Microsoft is adding Bash to Windows 10 in the next
>> big update mid-year:
>> http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/30/11331014/microsoft-windows-linux-ubuntu-bash
> 
> It's not April 1st yet is it?  Because this [1] makes it look like
> Windows will also support apt-get (after you turn all this on via a
> developer setting).  Which would be pretty awesome, and mean we could
> replace all our Windows-installation hoop jumping with “enable this
> setting and apt-get install these packages…”.
> 
> I'm not sure how that would happen though.  Have Canonical/Microsoft
> ported all of those applications to also run on a Windows kernel?  Are
> they using something like Cygwin's shim layer to put a POSIX interface
> on top of Window's kernel?
> 
> Cheers,
> Trevor
> 
> [1]: 
> http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx
> 
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