[davefp]

Back when WSL was first released I tried getting my ruby environment set up using it, but at the time I still used a graphical text editor and getting it talking to the Linux filesystem was too much of a bother.

Nowadays I use vim so I gave it another chance a couple of weeks ago. Together with the new Windows Terminal app [1] it's been a great experience. I can run my editor and my code on Linux and then visit the webapp from the browser in the Windows environment.

Note: There's also better support for talking to the Linux filesystem from Windows nowadays, but I've not needed it so I can't comment on how good it is. Scott Hanselman has a good blog post on getting it set up though [2])

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal

[2] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/RubyOnRailsOnWindowsIsNotJust...

[battery_cowboy]

Re: files

I can open explorer.exe from inside wsl2 environment to copy files back and forth easily.