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Me too. It was one of the reasons I came back to windows, but it proved useless. Sure I've just discovered it after having a corrupted filesystem.

I dreamed to edit a movie in a video editor, pass a filter using ffmpeg, but can't even edit a file in notepad and run it in Python.

VMs or remote access are still the best solution for development. Even cygwin and using setup.exe to edit files are better.

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Huh? You just have to be careful not to use the linux filesystem from windows. It's hidden under %localappdata%\lxss anywax.

Editing test.py in your Desktop and then running it with python /mnt/c/Users/Neves/Desktop/test.py should work fine. I honestly do not understand your problem here. If you need to access a file from windows and linux, it must be in the windows fs. That's it.

Agreed, I do Ruby development like this and it is seemless. The code, editor and git live on Windows while Ruby and MySQL run on wsl.

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