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Support for symlinks in Windows 10, at least, just got better (or rather easier) for those of us on the Insider Fast Ring: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-w...

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Replying to self as to not change the actual content of my original post. Since August, I've been using Win10 w/ the Windows Subsystem for Linux almost exclusively for my Linux development instead of ssh'ing into a local VM. I can do 100% of what I need for writing software. I'm primarily a C++/Python developer on linux. My IDE of choice is bash. I use vim as an editor, and gnumake to build, although I use pretty_make.py [1] to format GCC errors a little better and add colorization, etc. I use multiple wide-screen monitors, so screen realestate is not an issue for me (I usually have 2 bash shells split vertically per monitor).

One big downside for me is that I cannot actually run the code I build locally because the codebase I'm working on needs to enumerate & name the network adapters that are present, and WSL doesn't yet (, if ever) support this.

But, for what I'm currently doing, which is code cleanup and goal #1 is just clean compiles w/ no warnings as errors (w/ -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-zero-as-null-pointer) & links, it's a great productivity saver.

[1] https://github.com/myint/indent-finder/blob/master/test_file...

WSL does support network adapter enumeration as of build 14965.

Take a look at this blog post from November: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/10/ifco...

Have you tried MSYS2 instead of WSL for your use-case?

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