The problem is that not many IT departments support ubuntu. They are making lots of improvements to the UI and application management, but it can be cumbersome to get some applications working on linux. Having windows to install whatever gui apps you need or whatever other apps that aren't needed in linux, then having linux there to develop on has been pretty great. It's almost like a hybrid linux+windows operating system and not at all like running a vm on windows.
e.g. this is in my .bashrc in wsl, it writes stdout to my windows clipboard:
function cb () { powershell.exe -command "\$input | set-clipboard" }
Windows gets tons of hate in our community, but I gave it a chance a couple years ago after being frustrated with osx and it has been amazing and I think a lot of people would come around to it if they gave it a chance. I am biased towards linux though since I'm an sre, so maybe that is why I never could quite get comfortable on osx. I really disliked having to learn how to do something once on a mac, then do that same thing again on linux to get something into production.
e.g. this is in my .bashrc in wsl, it writes stdout to my windows clipboard:
function cb () { powershell.exe -command "\$input | set-clipboard" }
Windows gets tons of hate in our community, but I gave it a chance a couple years ago after being frustrated with osx and it has been amazing and I think a lot of people would come around to it if they gave it a chance. I am biased towards linux though since I'm an sre, so maybe that is why I never could quite get comfortable on osx. I really disliked having to learn how to do something once on a mac, then do that same thing again on linux to get something into production.