Download Ubuntu right in Windows Store only brothers

Microsoft announced at the Build 2017 conference earlier this year that users can download Ubuntu directly from the Windows Store, and now this most popular Linux distro is available for download.

Microsoft announced at the Build 2017 conference earlier this year that users can download Ubuntu directly from the Windows Store, and now this most popular Linux distro is available for download.

Download Ubuntu from Windows Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/ubuntu/9nblggh4msv6

Ubuntu - like SUSE Linux and Fedora, two upcoming Linux versions will also be downloaded from Windows Store - running in sanbox with Windows 10 and providing common command line utilities as a standalone, shared install Access to files and hardware with Windows 10.

The specific message from Windows Central is as follows:

"The appearance of Ubuntu, and SUSE, are part of Microsoft's recent effort to" get along "with Linux and the open source community is growing, starting with the emergence of Windows. Subsystem for Linux in 2016, allows users to use the Bash shell from within Windows 10. Note that this Ubuntu version is limited to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and will not be released publicly until later this year. If you're running a Fall Creators Update computer through the Windows Insider Program, you can download and try Ubuntu from the Windows Store ".

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To install Ubuntu, users will have to navigate to Control Panel (not the new Windows 10 Settings application) and select the Turn Windows features menu on or off. There, you can select "Windows Subsystem for Linux", it will allow Ubuntu to work after rebooting.

Explore more:

  1. Instructions for using Hyper-V to run Linux Distro on Windows 10
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Update 24 May 2019
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