Debian Lands on Windows 10

Microsoft is adding another major Linux distro to its growing collection of Linux environments in Windows 10. The company announced its plans to bring Linux environments to Windows 10 through the Microsoft Store last year, and a couple of them are already available for download. Just earlier today, for example, another Linux distro joined the Microsoft Store.

Debian is the latest addition to Microsoft’s collection of Linux environments in Windows 10 available through the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Debian joins other popular environments like Ubuntu and openSUSE on the Microsoft Store. Just like these other environments, you can install them directly from the Microsoft Store with a single click and get started. More importantly, you can run multiple distros at the same time, side-by-side, which is pretty darn cool.

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Debian is available from the Microsoft Store here.

Thanks, Aaron for the tip.

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  • nerocui

    06 March, 2018 - 1:56 pm

    <p>OMG, Kali and then Debian. I can feel that this year's Build is gonna be awesome. Maybe one day macOS will also be a subsystem of windows 10.</p>

    • jimchamplin

      Premium Member
      06 March, 2018 - 4:11 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#250883"><em>In reply to nerocui:</em></a></blockquote><p>Build GNUStep for Linux and most OSS software for macOS will build against it. </p>

    • Waethorn

      07 March, 2018 - 4:48 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#250883"><em>In reply to nerocui:</em></a></blockquote><p>macOS will NEVER be a subsystem of Windows 10 – Apple will be sure of that. It's more likely that one day, Apple will buy Microsoft.</p>

      • gatti1887

        07 March, 2018 - 5:38 pm

        <blockquote><a href="#251229"><em>In reply to Waethorn:</em></a><em> I think he was joking about Mac OS :)</em></blockquote><blockquote><br></blockquote><p><br></p>

  • hrlngrv

    Premium Member
    06 March, 2018 - 5:34 pm

    <p>I suppose I could test whether the binutils or coreutils files from different distributions differ, but I'm too lazy. Without X (GUI) or a Linux kernel, are there significant differences between WSL distributions?</p>

  • mrdrwest

    06 March, 2018 - 7:14 pm
  • DaveHelps

    Premium Member
    07 March, 2018 - 1:08 pm

    <p>Am I alone in wanting Raspbian / Pixel?</p>

  • Waethorn

    07 March, 2018 - 2:37 pm

    <p>Everybody using Windows 10 should use Debian and learn to build their own OS from packages. It's not as difficult as learning DOS and it's a good computer science project. You can learn how Linux/Unix works and how the filesystem operates in an "everything-as-a-file" methodology. Plus, you can install your own desktop environment and even customize it with themes in a way that Microsoft doesn't allow you to. If you're looking into a new desktop system, buy a cheap Celeron NUC or similar machine, install Debian on it, and make it your own Joe Blow operating system with the skills you learned while doing it in the WSL sandbox. Debian has lots of packages available in their repos. There's a ton of free software like Gimp and several different office productivity suites (LibreOffice 6 is really good), or use the free version G Suite in Chromium or Chrome (depending on where you download the browser from – the repo or directly from Google). You'd be surprised how productive you can be with a cheap hobby computer project.</p>

  • mortarm

    22 March, 2018 - 2:12 pm

    <p>I'm thrilled to see all these distros coming to Windows 10. Although I don't use it on a day-to-day basis, I've been messing with Linux since the first Slackware release back in the early/mid '90s. My favorite distro to date is Mint, so I hope that makes it over at some point.</p>

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