Are you using that new fangled Linux literally in Windows thing I heard of? How's that going?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

[2] https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/03/30/ubuntu-on-windows-the...

My only complaint thus far is that all the packages that you can get via apt-get seem really ancient. I had to go through hell building a lot of stuff myself to get anything remotely recent running.

After much pain, I finally got our product built and running, ran it then tried to connect to it and it core dumped. That's probably my fault I guess. I haven't dug into that yet, but there must be some platform difference I'm not aware of.

Anyway, it seems pretty stable in general although a little quirky. Having direct access between the Windows file system and the *nix side is pretty cool too.

I don't think I'll be switching to it full time but it is certainly interesting.

It still has a lot of rough edges, but they seem to be actively working on it, so I'm hopeful this leads to a virtuous cycle of more developers using it and more investment from Microsoft.

I think this is an Ubuntu issue, even on stand-alone Ubuntu. I assume the subsystem lets you add PPAs like in vanilla Ubuntu?

Maybe I screwed something up, but I really did try.

Docker

The shell being closer to production was more for familiarity sake. For me, I used to think I was going to be Mac for a long time because "Mac has a bash shell." Windows has a bash shell. In practice, I mostly use the ssh command! :)

Oh and the console window in Windows is now resizable! That drove me crazy.

I believe the current strategy is to have a container that contains your full build environment, push your source files in by mounting a folder, and then use file watchers to automatically rebuild/rerun.