[sbarre]

This is exactly me. When I can start running Linux(-ish) command line tools in Windows, I'll ditch my Macbook for a Dell in a hot second..

Here's a question though that I seem to not see answered (but maybe I'm not reading enough):

Can I run MariaDB or nginx or other "servers" in this environment? Or does that stuff not work?

[supernovae]

You can certainly run MariaDB. All you need to do is "apt-get install mariadb-server". The Linux subsystem is the entire Ubuntu 14.04 system. I love my Surface Pro 4 with latest Windows 10 release, only 1 week or so to go before its outside preview program. Look forward to see what Devs come up with. Some of the cooler stuff I've seen is using the Linux shell with Visual Studio Code as the shell on a windows system.

[MrFlynn]

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to. Then again, some tools don't seem to work for some inexplicable reason (ex screen).

[nitrogen]

I haven't tried W10 at all, but it's likely they didn't implement all of the terminal features required by screen, or that they did, but $TERM is set to something not recognized by [the terminal library that presumably underpins] screen.

For any new programmers who want to learn more, search for "ANSI escape codes", VT100, "terminal emulation", termcap, and terminfo. Maybe add curses and pseudoterminal for extra credit.