The key thing is WSL is very good. A real Linux environment with the distro of your choice running unmodified Linux binaries. It integrates well with Windows. S

The key thing is WSL is very good. A real Linux environment with the distro of your choice running unmodified Linux binaries. It integrates well with Windows. Some things are a bit funky, like the networking, under the covers it's just a VM with all the usual issues that entails. But it mostly works great. Combined with Windows Terminal and VS.Code and Microsoft has a very nice UI for developing on Linux machines.