[dman]

Good luck convincing your employer to do this. One feature request from me in case someone from MSFT is reading - please design things so that no file modify hooks are invoked at all for files under wsl directory. Files in wsl should be in a secure sandbox by default outside the reach of any antivirus.

I have heard that system devs at Microsoft have Admin mode enabled. I think that is why they dont realise how bad the dev experience is on windows when you dont have admin. You cant turn windows indexing off, you cant exclude things from anti virus, you cant launch Application Verifier. All dev workflows should work without Admin.

[ncmncm]

I am reliably informed that the top developers ay MS Research are in WSL 80% of the time.

[dman]

Satya,if you are reading this - Do an experiment by taking away everyones admin privileges for two weeks. See how many people can still do their jobs. Fix every single developer use case you find that needs admin.