Composer run on Git Bash creates Laravel Vendor directory, but not when run on WSL Ubuntu Shell

I have been using xampp to create my Laravel projects up to now. I decided to give Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Ubuntu distro a try, as I wanted to play around with deploying Laravel to AWS. I am having a problem creating my laravel projects with the vendor directory though.

If I run the following command via Git Bash (xampp) method, a laravel project is created with the vendor directory, but if I use the WSL Ubuntu shell, the project is created without a vendor directory. What gives?

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel eb-laravel

via Chebli Mohamed