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  • If you've booted into Windows, perhaps for gaming, it's nice to have Ubuntu 16.04 installed there when you are on micro-breaks, reading Ubuntu Q&A's here and want to quickly check some commands out without rebooting. If you want the limitations of Ubuntu on Windows your best bet is to go to Microsoft's website and read all the new feature requests or bugs users have posted: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 15:21
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    WSL is still quite a lot slower in terms of I/O (disk operations), even compared to Linux virtual machines running on Windows. Though, this seems to be an area worked on by Microsoft. Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 22:23
  • @jpaugh, exactly, thanks! I have also just updated the question again :) Commented Jul 3, 2018 at 10:40