I was really quite fond of colinux, out of assorted VM tech, colinux, cygwin and WSL1 and 2 that have provided me with enough of an X11+xterm+ssh rig to get wor

I was really quite fond of colinux, out of assorted VM tech, colinux, cygwin and WSL1 and 2 that have provided me with enough of an X11+xterm+ssh rig to get work done comfortably on a windows machine I think colinux and WSL1 have been the least friction overall.