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My experience with WSL has been excellent so far, I see it making Cygwin obsolete almost entirely. Cygwin was always a pain to set up and occasionally very buggy.

And slow. For some reason all commands I execute through cygwin seem to be taking a little more than if executed through a normal windows command prompt.

This really breaks the cygwin experience for me :/

For development reasons it's nice to have the same exact version and environment on your Windows desktop as you would on a server.

Python isn't installed by default on Windows. So this makes it easier.

Python not being installed by default honestly makes it very easy to install and manage on Windows.

Why not just use the good old python windows installer? I am using it for many years on various systems for both pytgon 2x and 3x and never had any problem or thought that it was difficult.

On the other hand, installing a different than the default version of python on a linux system is not something that a newbie can do (since it involves getting the sjc, compiling it and making an altinstall).