![Charles Stanhope](https://identi.ca/uploads/cstanhope/2016/9/27/YiiBmQ_thumb.png)
I think the main excitement is due to Microsoft's support and the idea you can just apt-get install Ubuntu binaries. Also, if you follow Microsoft's work on their tools, they are updating Visual Studio to target Linux. I don't know what it can do that other's can't... Get into Microsoft's store? :-/