I recently switched from mac to windows (nice desktop gaming rig) - and although I ran into a day's worth of issues getting WSL2 setup so I could use Docker - it's been smooth sailing with VSCode otherwise.
Dunno. I also upgraded to those new M2 "hard drives". Right now the docker images are the dependencies (redis, sunspot, PG) and the test suite isn't particularly large, but also isn't particularly optimized (ex: there were a bunch of tests that looked like they were VCR'd, but weren't), so I suspect any speed differences from the file system would be swamped by all that.
I can appreciate wanting a fast NPM install, but how often are you doing that that it's any kind of significant?
My main pain points were related to filesystem access, primarily its speed for things like npm install and running test suites.
Though if you're just using a docker image through wsl2, does that alleviate those issues?