These days windows + Ubuntu 18 on a virtual box are a great substitute.
Some might consider it better if you need to use excel (one of the greatest pieces of software ever)
Some might consider it better if you need to use excel (one of the greatest pieces of software ever)
WSL is windows subsystem for Linux. Think of it like this- say you have an 'ls' binary from UNIX machine. You have WSL enabled on your machine in Windows. Windows will start the ls process and the UNIX calls will be handles in windows. (the kernel has mappings).
It's possible, and actually its wonderful experience, to run full "linux" environment right from windows at native speed.
It's not perfect and one of the biggest issues has been file system speed but besides that and some other smaller issues its the absolute best of both worlds- OneNote + excel + outlook + i3