Hi,  

AZ Pete mentioned the Windows Powershell and the Visual Studio Code
editor.  I thought I would branch off of that. 

I'm not a Python developer. I'm a PHP developer. 

In the past I have always used an external LAMP server for development. 
Currently I have an old i3 laptop that was upgraded to an SSD.  Does the
job just fine. 

A month or so ago I thought I would experiment with the Windows
Subsystem for Linux by installing Apache, MySql, and PHP.  Worked well,
with two exceptions.   

I used Visual Studio Code to edit the code "remotely". 

I had two issues which I do not recall completely.  1) When I would
bring the computer out of screen saver mode it would run really slow and
require a reboot.  I'm guessing  the subsystem went to sleep and was not
able to wake up..... 2) As I recall I configured a number of vhosts off
of /var/www/html/ which worked well except PHP reported the Docroot was
the same as the localhost for all three vhosts, even though they were
configured with different Docroots. I wonder if there might be a Apache
setting that will correct this? 

The subsystem reports its running Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS. 

I think it might be time to dig a little deeper.