I don’t think I really get it
I tried the Linux subsystem and found it a hacked up broken mess. I don’t really “get” Linux to be sure, I find it fragile and finicky at the best of times. For example my PS3 “may or may not” suffer some kind of crash when activating “HEN,” the homebrew enabler, which in turn requires a “hard” shutdown, followed by an exhaustive and time-wasting disk assessment. In fact Linux fundamentally sucks in that it produces this extraordinarily verbose dialog of self-conversation that flashes past at each and every bootup, before vanishing to show a login prompt. What in the Royal Hell is all that garbage? I find, if I try to catch a glimpse of what’s flashing by about 1/4 appears to be in some kind of error condition. Is there anything to pay attention to there, well presumably because it all goes whipping past, and presumably not, since it’s all cleared away before you can see it.
But the frustrating nature of the Linux CLI is you carefully construct each command to issue to the software, and if there’s the slightest typo it fails with the most pathologically useless error message describing what went wrong. Entire batch jobs are one bit-error from massive pile-ups. But I digress.
Running Linux subsystem simply so you can run RPM seems crazy to me. Packages, containers, really?
Because I run Windows itself as a virtual environment — not the other way around. As far as I’m concerned Windows is merely an environment for running a desktop application. Though I may use it to “run” a primitive emulator for a long obsolete system (nostalgia purposes only).
If I want to open up a Mac environment or a Linux environment then they get their own, separate and distinct, sets of resources. Also, they, too, are only good for running some other, different, desktop applications.
And that’s all it is.