I can confirm that window's wsl and bash systems are moving along very quickly. I moved to windows about a month back and have only one use case for which I need to boot ubuntu up: docker with symlinked folders.

Apart from the above use case, I've missed nothing. There's some hacking I'm attempting to do to get vscode to use the underlying bash mechanism for its code linting tools but that's more a preparation for the inevitable moment when some linting tool or package depends purely on a Linux/Unix environment.