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Microsoft Brings Linux Files to Windows 10 with New Update:
Windows 10 build 19603, which is now available for download in the Fast ring, includes File Explorer integration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL.
In other words, if you have already installed WSL on your device, a new Linux drive will show up in File Explorer, letting you browse files normally.
Support for accessing Linux files that you work with in WSL isn't new in Windows 10, as such capabilities have previously been enabled in an older release. In fact, even production devices can do this starting with Windows 10 version 1903, which was released in the spring of 2019.
[...] "We've had the ability to access your Linux files since Windows 1903, but now you can easily get to them from your left-hand navigation pane in File Explorer. Selecting the Linux icon will show you a view of all your distros, and selecting those will place you in the Linux root file system for that distro," Microsoft explains.
(Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Friday April 10 2020, @03:39AM (1 child)
Skimming TFA, I notice that the EXT file system, EXT4 in particular, is not mentioned even once. I expect that if you were to plug an EXT4-formatted into a Vista10-infected unit, that it would still not be able to read it and would still try to reformat it. Thus I can only conclude that the title and summary are completely misleading, just more lies from M$, and that Vista10 still cannot actually read any EXT4 file systems. Otherwise they would have been crowing about it.
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(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2020, @12:45PM
I expect that if you were to plug an EXT4-formatted into a Vista10-infected unit, that it would still not be able to read it and would still try to reformat it
MS: hey we have this cool utility you can use.
Internet: hur de dur! M$ came out with more crap!
I personally keep my OS's fairly segregated as the models they run in do not work very well together. However, MS does have WSL (which I have not used yet). That means they need to make it easier to use for themselves and others. Why would they not do that? These days I am more worried about google. They have the ability to 'end you' social wise. MS has not really played that game. MS wants your money. Google wants your mind and tell you what you should say. One is just kinda scummy the other breaks freedom.