WSL Hacks: Making Atom linters work with Windows Subsystem for Linux

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I recently (recently being about 3 AM this morning) decided that I’d try and replace my <a href="https://www.archlinux.org/" target="_blank">Arch Linux</a>/VMWare setup with something a lot less resource intensive, Windows new Subsystem for <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/linux" target="_blank">Linux</a> (WSL). For those of you that aren’t familiar, WSL is not a VM. Rather it is a special Ubuntu distro built into Windows 10 that can be activated by using <code class="markup--code markup--p-code">bash.exe</code>. Microsoft has been making big strides recently to become a more open-source company, and WSL has gone a long way towards bringing devs back to Windows.