My comment actually just addressed the part where the parent complains about MS not providing a way to create native Windows applications from within WSL. Maybe

My comment actually just addressed the part where the parent complains about MS not providing a way to create native Windows applications from within WSL. Maybe you wanted to reply to someone else? In any case: away from the Linux distributions When running Linux on WSL you're effectively still running it so you're not really away from Linux, are you? Actually you can even try and turn the argument around. For a windows user it is now probably easier than ever to try linux: no need for dual-boot or bootable media or virtual machines but a simple way to install and run it. So this might actually lead to more linux users, not less. But we'd need to count to be sure, everything else is guesswork.