It's actually quite easy to imagine scenarios such as it is not your computer and the person whose computer it is (such as an employer) requires for whatever reasons that it run Windows.
That said, it should be noted that in many discussions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux people have observed that this is not being aimed at people who run Linux. This is being aimed at people who would otherwise be migrating from Windows to (say) a Mac. (And also at those who have already migrated, and might be reconsidering migrating back.)
For those people, jiantastic's question is important. They want to know whether their needs can be met by staying on Windows and using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, whether it is "good enough" as a development environment to do all of the things that they may need to do as a developer (from installing and running development tools to hosting test rigs), or whether it doesn't meet those needs and they should instead consider the more drastic course of replacing Windows with something else.
It's actually quite easy to imagine scenarios such as it is not your computer and the person whose computer it is (such as an employer) requires for whatever reasons that it run Windows.
That said, it should be noted that in many discussions of the Windows Subsystem for Linux people have observed that this is not being aimed at people who run Linux. This is being aimed at people who would otherwise be migrating from Windows to (say) a Mac. (And also at those who have already migrated, and might be reconsidering migrating back.)
For those people, jiantastic's question is important. They want to know whether their needs can be met by staying on Windows and using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, whether it is "good enough" as a development environment to do all of the things that they may need to do as a developer (from installing and running development tools to hosting test rigs), or whether it doesn't meet those needs and they should instead consider the more drastic course of replacing Windows with something else.