[tahnyall]

> Where I’m working, WSL doesn’t work (well), VMs are banned, and personal experience with cygwin is awful

I'm no Windows fan but WSL has worked extremely well on several different machines I've worked on since 2015 and Cygwin was no WSL but I could get a lot done with it back in the day as well.

> Docker works but it makes test runs 100x slower (yes, I measured, it’s not made up).

Yeah, I don't know what you're doing that it could be 100 times slower, something else is wrong.

[pletnes]

WSL conflicts with many antivirus/security packages due to e.g DNS filtering or other network restrictions. WSL itself on a non-managed box works not-too-bad, sure.

Cygwin has been very useful to me, but also caused its share of issues with its permissions model, creating large directory trees that couldn’t be deleted.