Not dumb at all; WSLg would actually work for linux applications, and in theory seems relatively painless, though I've never actually tried it. I think the guides I was looking at were pre-WSLg, where it was... a mess.

But it's kinda moot, because not all of the applications even have a linux version. Sourcetree is a great example: it's only available on windows and mac.

To complicate things further, because I move frequently between my laptop and my desktop, I have all of my source code in dropbox (including git, and yes, it's a shitshow, though I would like to change the way I have this set up because dropbox has a nasty habit of temporarily breaking git). And to complicate things _even further_, my old laptop is dying, and I'm replacing it with a macbook (and throwing ubuntu on the old one), so I'll have windows 10, mac, and linux all at the same time.

For the most part I make it work, but there are definitely days when I just want to throw them all out the window.