[kalleth]

You can absolutely use this for work.

My windows workflow involves a Virtualbox VM, with ~/ in the guest mounted as Z: on the windows host.

Use gvim installed direct on windows (so long as you don't need super complex plugins which shell out to utilities) to edit files in Z: which exist on the host, with PuTTy and tmux as your terminal. Done.

The thing holding windows back right now is a terminal emulator to sit ontop of WSL, and WSL's ability to run background processes properly without closing them all when i close a terminal (and to have things autostart on boot).

There are workarounds right now to solve this, though.