The only real problem with WSL2 is networking. WSL2 for plain vm platform its more than usable for everything even desktop. I wish microsoft would make a dedica

The only real problem with WSL2 is networking. WSL2 for plain vm platform its more than usable for everything even desktop. I wish microsoft would make a dedicated gui like hyper-v/vmware to modify network/port/firewall settings. Running virtualbox/vmware would be a better bet if you want to develop the same setup (docker host) you would use in lab/production and develop on your workstation. (gold copies, clone, terraform, whatever way you provision) But if I really wanted a dedicated homelab for linux operating systems. I'd run vmware esxi (or even kvm) would be my choice. And you the free version of esxi is more than enough to get things done. M1 is more for arm vm's, thou you could run parallels, it be slower, but you most likely dont need speed for docker, but you have to buy an M1 with more ram. Myself, I've finally just ended up with vmware workstation on my win10 overkill workstation, and keep wsl for my quick tasks. I actually like win11, but I won't upgrade yet, android (asl) works fine. My M1 mac mini is a great general workstation, runs dual monitors, runs arm arch in a vm, easily the nicest cheap workstation out.