Linux'izing your Windows PC into a dev machine
I use WSL from time to time on my personal laptop, and the reason is this: I think Windows is still superior to any Linux flavour for doing &quot;leisure&quot; things like watching VoD, or playing games (not that I do any more).<p>This isn&#x27;t a dig at Linux it&#x27;s simply that we still have lazy content creators using things such as Silverlight to provide content. These applications &quot;just work&quot; on Windows, and when they are at all possible on Linux, they tend to require a lot of manual effort and simply aren&#x27;t as good as the Windows solutions (Google Drive, Spotify, VPN applications etc.).<p>I also use my personal laptop for dev, and as I&#x27;m an OSS-stack developer, I use Linux. Having the ability to run Linux natively on Windows is superb, and is genuinely usable for work purposes for the most part.<p>The article doesn&#x27;t capture a few other bugbears with WSL. The file system is slooooooow (really slow), quite a few applications just flat-out don&#x27;t work, and others are buggy as hell (psql e.g.). Would I use it in a serious work capacity daily? No - but I&#x27;m certainly appreciative that I <i>can</i> use it and it works pretty well 95% of the time.