Seems to me that the only thing here that's new is that you can actually find Ubuntu in the store. If you're on the latest non-insider Windows 10, you can do t

Seems to me that the only thing here that's new is that you can actually find Ubuntu in the store. If you're on the latest non-insider Windows 10, you can do the same steps (enable "windows subsystem for linux" in the os features) and then just open a command-line window and type "bash". That'll download ubuntu from the store and set it up as a subsystem. An extra thing I like about using WSL, that I hadn't foreseen when I started trying it, is that because the Ubuntu environment is a bit separate from the Windows environment. It feels a bit like working in a VM but then fast. For instance, if you change .bashrc or apt install something, the host Windows environment does not change. This is lovely because it allows me to experiment. If I totally screw stuff up and make my Ubuntu unusable, I just wipe the entire linux subsystem installation and start from scratch. For Linux newbies like me this is very nice. I guess Docker gives you even better freedom-to-fiddle on native Linux, but it's a good step in the same direction for us Windows coders.