For Windows 10, I have a bunch of free-as-in-baby Ubuntu bash shells to maintain…
These are the bash shells of the Songhay System:
| **Machine Name** | **Ubuntu Version** | **Notes** |
| Ubuntu Server VM on A2 Hosting | 16.04 LTS | Live production server (kintespace.com). |
| Ubuntu Server VM on Azure | 16.04 LTS | .NET Core experiments and poor-man’s backup. |
| Ubuntu Desktop VM on VMware | 16.04 LTS | Desktop Publishing, Blender 3D scene-building, mirroring/syncing with *Ubuntu Server VM on **A2 Hosting*. |
| Ubuntu Bash Shell on Windows 10 VM on VMware | 16.04 LTS | NPM/gulp/bower stack for Visual Studio. |
| Ubuntu Bash Shell on Windows 10 VMware Host | 16.04 LTS | File backup (`scp`) source for *Ubuntu Server VM on Azure*. This is physical hardware. |
| Ubuntu Bash Shell on Windows 10 Studio Workstation | 16.04 LTS | This is physical hardware. |
Six bash environments to maintain, four of them critical…
The table is telling me immediately that the physical-hardware Bash shell environments are currently rarely used. This implies that I have to be some kind of Linux nerd to have two ‘extra’ environments to maintain. Or I am in need of cattle-herding tool that can help me maintain Ubuntu six times over.
Since I am not a Linux nerd, these are the Bash commands I know I need to run at least once a month (six times over):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
I think I have the order wrong. I should see “Package management with APT” and “What Kind of Maintenance Do I Need to Do On My Linux PC?” for detail. According to “How to maintain a ‘clean’ Ubuntu” I might want to try ucaresystem and just be done with it in one command—but will it break something in Windows 10?.