Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 vs. Ubuntu Bash On Windows 10 Anniversary Performance

[Nemerian]

PowerShell on Linux!

Well, there's a leak that shows Microsoft is likely to be open-sourcing PowerShell, so it should be ported.

[Nemerian]

That's actually really funny. Windows games run better on Linux (Wine) than Linux games on Windows (Ubulayer)

Well, Wine has virtual versions of pretty much every Windows component.
WSL has just a transplanted userland and is still in it's infancy. No display server or other such parts that allow complex visual apps to run.

[F.Ultra]

Any explanation for the better performance with stream and x264 on WSL?

My guess is that these two applications are programmed/optimized against how the memory model in the Windows kernel works which makes them behave worse with the model used in the Linux kernel.

[Xaero_Vincent]

Well, there's a leak that shows Microsoft is likely to be open-sourcing PowerShell, so it should be ported.

There is also an open-source Linux/Mac PowerShell implementation using Mono called Pash. It's not nearly as developed (currently only a subset of cmdlets are supported) but there were GIT commits last month, so it's somewhat active and you can write basic Pash-specific PowerShell scripts with it.