I'd really like to get into programming on Linux and I think I'd like to start learning GTK+ (since Gnome seems to be the more popular desktop and I use Ubuntu).Could someone please point me ...

I really would like to make a basic GUI front end that could spit out the conf file. Does anyone know how I would go about starting to program something for linux?

Windows 10 now lets you run Linux GUI apps (X11 and Wayland) without using a virtual machine after Microsoft added GUI support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Linux on Windows is continuing to grow ever more powerful and functional. Now, graphical Linux programs are being integrated into WSL.

Graphical Linux Apps on Windows 10 The new GUI support will be part of the existing Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which until this point has only supported command-line Linux functionality.