I went from using a virtual machine to running rxvt-unicode under WSL with XMinGW as my X server and SSHing into a real-Linux virtual machine. If you don't need

I went from using a virtual machine to running rxvt-unicode under WSL with XMinGW as my X server and SSHing into a real-Linux virtual machine. If you don't need Haskell (I do) you can probably get away without SSHing, most programs do work under WSL but Haskell's runtime requires a syscall that's unsupported. As to why I don't use real Linux - at home, I do, but we have products in ASP.NET at work so that's not an option.