Ubuntu on Windows

Looking at Hanselman's blog on this, was excited to see Redis running. Presumably this makes the Rails on Windows story a bit better?

Absolutely. As Rails would then be running on Linux.

I code ruby running in this system (some stuff has issues, it's beta, and I'm doing Sinatra) but using Visual Studio Code as my editor.

Now we're talking. I don't expect it'll ever be as smooth to develop with Rails under Windows as it is under actual Linux, but if it were as good as OS X, I'd say this was a success. But, then again, maybe this subsystem really will make it feel native. As a matter of fact, this was the only use case I could come up with to test the implementation of this announcement. I'd like to think that I speak for enough people to make it worthwhile to suggest that you should do a writeup on your experiences with this. I'm strongly reconsidering letting my main machine re-upgrade to 10 to try it, but it works really nicely for gaming right now, without any other cruft. ;-)

This is actual Linux (minus the kernel) so it should work 99% the same as under Ubuntu when doing usermode stuff.