Ubuntu on Windows

I wonder how buggy thus is. For example, how do symlinks work given windows doesn't have an equivalent that behaves the same.

Windows does have symlinks and hardlinks that work very similarly but are only exposed via a built in cmd command. That said no one uses them.

I use them. They're also heavily used by the OS itself -- the entire WinSxS folder structure is a whole lot of symlinks.

I used to use them (directory junction points) quite a bit back when 64GB SSDs were still expensive and I wanted to redirect a few folders without changing my folder structure.

Nowadays, the most common use I've seen is as the Windows implementation of 'npm link' for Node.js developers.

I was being a little over dramatic windows has like 1B installs obviously someone "uses" them.

It is? I thought it was hard links.

I know but the semantics are different.

My work uses symlinks to avoid re-downloading 3rd party libraries in different Perforce branches.