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On Sun, 3 Feb 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:

> It's what you are used to.  I haven't tried it but apparently Microsoft
> has implemented the Linux syscall layer that you can just drop a distro
> on top of windows and the binaries work.

I've used it with Debian.  Add an X server and PulseAudio server on the 
Windows side and it's really not bad.

-uso.