Yeah I really don't get the desire to do unixey development on Windows. Boot up a VM and SSH into it, if you really must have Windows. It's not like you have to buy a license to use Linux. I keep struggling to understand what WSL brings to Windows. First it was a totally incomplete distro, and now it's just a fucking VM. Seems like a gimmick more than anything.
Virtualbox, HyperV, etc will all allow you to access your Windows files on the guest OS. If that doesn't work, just set up an SMB share and map it. Why all the complication? Does clicking one button to install a distro really serve anybody? Why do you want to use the fucking awful Windows Update mechanism to update your kernel? Updating the kernel in Linux is so fast and easy...
You learn so much more about Linux by running Linux. Why are we trying to abstract that away? I think it's Microsoft's desperation to keep devs from continuing to jump to MacOS and Linux.
