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Microsoft and Canonical's "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" integration story continues, and it looks like a developer on GitHub has managed to run the Unity desktop environment on top of a Windows 10 installation.
While it didn't yet land for all users, as Microsoft plans on bringing the "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" integration that lets users run Ubuntu Linux natively on the Windows 10 operating system as part of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, due for release on August 2, 2016, GitHub user Guerra24 managed to achieve something else.
After doing all sorts of tricks in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (CSSM) GUI configuration tool for Compiz, and using a combination of VcXsrv and XLaunch, two applications for configuring and setting up a Windows X server, he managed to run Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS with the Unity desktop environment on top of Windows 10.
> Wait, wouldn't VMware or Bochs already allow this?
With the overhead of virtual machine, yes. This is a native Windows implementation. I would assume the usual Windows level of quality, of course.
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