The choice will not really be Windows or Linux, it will be whether you boot Hyper-V or KVM first, and Windows and Ubuntu stacks will be tuned to run well on the other.

Will Windows ever be Linux based?

Thanks to a feature called Windows Subsystem for Linux, you can already run Linux applications in Windows. … But now Microsoft will build the Linux kernel into WSL, starting with a new version of the software set for a preview release in June. To be clear, Microsoft isn’t replacing the Windows kernel.

Is Microsoft transitioning to Linux?

10 years ago, to even suggest that Microsoft would move its entire operating system to Linux would be unheard of. … Now, Microsoft is going to be moving from its most recent effort to create its own bespoke rendering engine for Edge to using a rendering engine which (mostly) sticks to web standards.