What's interesting about the Windows approach, (and I realize you know this) is you don't cease being a Linux user - they are effectively running a instance of Ubuntu (previously 14.04, now 16.04) - so most of the linux fu you are used to, translates directly to WSL. The Anniversary update was intriguing, but there were little nits in things like networking, file/process access between windows/linux environments, that made it just as easy (for me) to simply run a VM instance. Creators Update looks like it's resolved pretty much 100% of the top issues on my nit list - it's going to be really interesting to see I switch my workflow from VMs to working with WSL.