Thanks for the updates, Melanie.
While I use linux and osx for most bioinformatics, all of my personal machines run Windows. I've been hoping to use WSL to make some standard programs work well on my Windows machines (things like git, gzip, grep, sed).
Because the core of qiime is python, all those native commands should work, but I'm not sure if the qiime devs are interested in getting in running on WSL. I would love to be able to run a quick 'biom summarize' from a Windows machine, but I'm not sure if that day is close.
Thanks for telling me more about WSL. Let me know what else you find,
Colin