I agree. If I would stay solely inside the WSL2 VM, it might be fast but my problem is that I need a tight integration between the Windows and the WSL2 file sys

I agree. If I would stay solely inside the WSL2 VM, it might be fast but my problem is that I need a tight integration between the Windows and the WSL2 file systems. In effect, this is a real pain, especially when it comes to I/O. But WSL2 also constantly loads one or more CPU cores to 100%+. My whole system feels handicapped. I probably have additional problems due to MS Defender, all known measures (that I can implement at all in a corporate-managed environment) have hardly remedied it.