In 2016, Microsoft launched Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which brought robust unix functionality to Windows.In May 2019, Microsoft announced the release of WSL 2 which includes an updated architecture that improvedmany aspects of WSL - especially file system performance. I have been following WSL for a while butnow that WSL 2 is nearing general release, I decided to install it and try it out. In the few days Ihave been using it, I have really enjoyed the experience. The combo of using Windows 10 and afull Linux distro like Ubuntu is a really powerful development solution that works surprisingly well.