[pdonis]

Why would I want to run a proprietary, closed-source implementation of what is supposed to be an open source operating system?

[WalterGR]

You personally? Hard to say since we don’t know your needs.

But other people seem to have a reason, based on the comments here and in every submission about WSL.

What are your needs?

[fesoliveira]

Their kernel implementation will actually be open source and hosted on Github in the close future.

[kristianp]

Because things like sleep and hibernate work on Windows?