Comment by avtar

> Nevermind, bash on windows sucks for Emacs. The very first thing I tried to do was set a mark (c-space) and it doesn't work. Maybe there's a workaround but it's just not worth the effort.

https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/639

I haven't found a workaround yet and still use Linux VMs for a lot of tasks.