One thing you need to be careful with regarding WSL is that it still doesn't correctly handle umask[0]. There are some workarounds if you use particular termin

One thing you need to be careful with regarding WSL is that it still doesn't correctly handle umask[0]. There are some workarounds if you use particular terminals (for instance you can't use Mobaxterm as it forces 777 regardless) but it's not exactly 'it just works' yet. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/352 https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/352