[jhugg]

1) It’s super cool that it works.

2) It’s not ready yet. Lots of stuff doesn’t work, though much does.

3) It’s oddly separate from Windows, which makes perfect sense, but the unix is so much less integrated than mac (or obviously linux) systems are.

3a) Not being able to launch windows binaries from Bash makes scripting hybrid stuff hard. I think this will be fixed at some point.

3b) I’m not sure if the windows file explorer can see the ubuntu root fs. Could be wrong here.

It seems that once it goes 1.0, it will have some advantages over a VM with shared files, but also a few disadvantages.

[kyriakos]

3b) it does. The Linux files are just regular files in ntfs under some obscure path.