I'm using it full-time, albeit not for anything esoteric - mostly for zsh & bash, all my commandline stuff, node/npm etc. For these purposes it's pretty much eq

I'm using it full-time, albeit not for anything esoteric - mostly for zsh & bash, all my commandline stuff, node/npm etc. For these purposes it's pretty much equivalent to doing the same on macOS (though if you're used to Linux, the core utilities will be more familiar on WSL than on the mac). By and large Microsoft have done an impressive job with WSL. Windows vs unix filepaths can be a pest for some things (particularly integrating commandline with GUI apps), but I don't think I've come across anything without a workaround so far. I wouldn't really call it 'running Linux' - for that you'll need to actually install & run Linux (either on the metal or in a VM). But for many of the purposes for which you might want to run Linux, WSL is more than adequate.