Comment by gshulegaard

> It's my understanding that the Ubuntu subsystem in recent windows is sort of a parallel environment ... but is not meant to control the system directly or as an alternate path of interaction with Windows, correct ?

I am not so sure about this. I think Dustin Kirkland sheds some more light here:

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.htm...

And he seems to be relatively excited about it so he benched it more recently:

https://www.linux.com/learn/howdy-ubuntu-windows-how-fast-it

It seems more like an inverse Wine than a parallel environment.