[Locke1689]

Working at Microsoft on C# but being a Unix programmer at heart I know what you mean. I'm not of the mind that Unix is strictly superior -- I think most of the operating systems just involve which tradeoffs you want to make -- but I happen to like a fair amount of the Unix tradeoffs and I think that the programmer ecosystem is really valuable.

Which is why I think it's unfortunate that I don't really but that a Unix subsystem is the way to make programming on Windows better. All my problems with Cygwin or git bash all lie on the boundaries of interactions. The most annoying things are when you can't run a batch file in bash or when you launch a Windows program with a Unix-style path and ends up with garbage because no file actually exists with that path on NTFS. Adding transparent proxying or something similar just ends up being more of a pain because now its really difficult to debug when something inevitably goes wrong. Perhaps more importantly, even if you solve the filesystem issues you're still stuck with things like /proc.

Overall, I think I'd rather just have really lightweight and transparent VM access.