[justabystander]

> If your app is a database server, probably yes.

They explicitly don't support that. From the article:

> Linux distro's [sic] running atop WSL are for interactive user scenarios, NOT for running production workloads on Apache/nginx/MySQL/MongoDB/etc.

And the last time I checked, it's not suitable for services. The moment I closed the bash terminal, all the processes I had running through WSL terminated - including nginx and tomcat.

[geofft]

Ah, thanks. I've only played around with interactively but that makes sense.

It really seems like the primary use case is supporting Docker/OCI containers for local dev, so you can keep using a Windows desktop instead of switching to a Linux one.