Re:What's this crap good for? (Score 1)

I think most people are missing the point of WSL. WSL is not really about running Linux on Windows, but rather interoperability. Microsoft's strategy is not to move LINUX customers to Windows (they know they lost that fight), but rather to facilitate interoperability between the two. The main reason for WSL, is to allow for native containerization of LINUX workloads. Microsoft and RedHat already have a partnership in which they're working on container interoperability between the two. Microsoft has done a complete 360 and instead of fighting with LINUX and opensource, they're working with those communities. While WSL will not replace a full-blown LINUX distro (not yet anyway), it is very useful for people like me that have a need to write LINUX bash, python, or shell scripts. I can test my scripts/programs on WSL without the need for a LINUX VM or emulators. It also gives me access to many LINUX commands that I wished Windows had at some point or an other. Using awk or sed or writing a shell script without firing up a LINUX VM, to me, is awesome. Again, this is not a LINUX replacement or an evil tactic by Microsoft to lure customers away from LINUX, but rather extending interoperability between the two.