Hyper-V is just a VM environment that comes with some versions of windows... It&#x27;s not really too much different than VMWare, Parallels or VirtualBox...  It does have an option to start in the background on machine start on the desktop version.<p>So I installed Ubuntu Server (latest) in a Virtual Machine via Hyper-V... set it to auto-boot.. setup OpenSSH, setup Samba ... I kind of just muddled through it, to be honest.. after that, I setup Docker, build-essentials and nvm, which covered my needs there.<p>On the windows side, I use Clover as an explorer replacement (file explorer, not the desktop), and use ConEmu for tabbed shell interfaces.  It works pretty well for me.  I use GUI stuff in windows, and the linux side via SSH.