"The hardest part of running bash and other posix things under windows is filesystem access. Windows uses drive letters and backslashes, unix has a root filesystem with forward slashes. It seems they are taking the same route as cygwin by "mounting" windows drives in /mnt/c (or /cygdrive/c)."

How do these ubuntu tools interact with the rest of the windows system that they are running on ?

Can I 'kill -9 explorer.exe' ?

Can I touch a file in /mnt/c/(whatever)/Desktop ... and have that file actually show up on my windows desktop ?