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If doing Windows development, I agree. WSL is a nice "I would like to have a Linux-like environment without losing Windows or running a full-blown VM" measure. This idea has existed for a long time with things like Cygwin, but at the end of the day, a natively-ran Linux distro will be considerably better for many development stacks than WSL.