The Windows Subsystem for Linux should work well for DevOps work that involves administering remote machines, rather than local VMs; I use WSL + Ansible to cont

The Windows Subsystem for Linux should work well for DevOps work that involves administering remote machines, rather than local VMs; I use WSL + Ansible to control AWS VMs semi-regularly. You won't be able to do things like run local Docker instances through it though; Docker on Windows is still done through VMs (afaik). WSL devs are pretty communicative; I've filed issues on GitHub and had them resolved; I won't say it's the fastest process in the world, but you can actually communicate with them and they do fix bugs, which is more than I can say when I've filed tickets with Apple. They also have a user voice where you can see what people are asking for that doesn't work yet: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con... If you already have the computer you should definitely give WSL a try.