Ask HN: Is anyone actually using Windows Subsystem for Linux?
Trying to understand if this is actually a usable solution, and what scenarios?  My main scenarios are nodejs &#x2F; react &#x2F; webpack and Rails &#x2F; Postgres.<p>I have a 2014 MBP and thinking of upgrading to a windows laptop (since 2016 MBP dropped the escape key), but being able to do rails development easily is a requirement.  I used to use an Ubuntu VM with Virtual Box and VIM &#x2F; SSH on a previous windows box, but I find that clunky compared to Visual Studio Code in my MBP.<p>So far, both Rails and Webpack have broken in subtly weird ways every time I&#x27;ve tried.  I was able to get my rails app working by installing Postgres and Elasticsearch on windows, and connecting.  But it was slow and occasionally had weird issues.<p>Would love to know what others are doing here.