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Linux on Windows 10 seems like a good thing. I plan to use it for testing a Node.js application developed on Windows

You're probably going to have a bad time. Some of the lower-level network APIs are pretty buggy last time I checked.

We've made a lot of improvements in the last few months of insider builds. If there are still blocking issues, I'd definitely be interested in hearing about them.

What does "lower-level" and "buggy" mean? I really doubt an HTTP server is going to have any troubles.

We are running game servers on WSL, where you can imagine we are using fairly to-the-metal socket work over UDP and no issues with libcurl or libopenssl for TCP sockets.

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