Richard has WSL feels

I recently bought a gaming laptop with a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to do machine and deep learning. It came with Windows 11, which means it does "WSLg", wsl with support for graphical Linux programs. It was real simple to get Ubuntu 22.04 set up. A couple commands and I have Firefox and Chrome, with audio. NVidia has special instructions for CUDA passthrough back to Windows, and I have tensoflow setup with Jupyter notebook and JupyterLab working.

I'm thinking of this as I hear your reviews of the HP DEV1 laptop, running Linux, and wonder if a Windows 11 machine would be a sufficient it not better Linux machine for most people. 

Not for a "Chris" that uses specialized A/V and podcasting software, but maybe for Mike's hypothetical web developer, running git, node, python and other software in WSL but not having to worry about driver issues. 

Even more so for a developer at a larger enterprise, where everyone runs the microsoft suite of office and teams software. I'm even writing this in linux Chrome run from WSL.

So do you think a Windows 11 machine is a viable alternative for devs that need linux software?