Personally, I love that I can develop with Rails on Windows and it actually works and isn't a second class citizen. I went and recorded a 20 min video screencast showing what you need to do to enable and some cool stuff that just scratches the surface of this new feature. We first saw Bash on Windows 10 in march of this year at the BUILD conference.ĭevelopers can run all their Linux user-mode developer tools like Redis or even TensorFlow (without GPU support). The feature is the Linux Subsystem for Windows or "Bash on Windows" or sometimes "Ubuntu on Windows." Call it what you like, they're real, and they're spectacular. In that update (or in the Windows 10 Insider Builds you can get if you're a techie or adventurous) you're going to get a lot of nice polish AND the ability to optionally run Linux (ELF) Binaries on Windows 10 at the command line. This year it's gonna get better (like Windows 10.1 better if you ask me) with an update that's coming August 2nd! It's my daily driver and it gets better every month. Ya, I'm not a fan of the name Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" but it has been a year since Windows 10 came out.