[corty]

WSL2 doesn't really cut it. Can't use my own window manager/desktop environment, graphics are kinda slow and sluggish, hardware passthrough is worse than in vmware, etc.

It might be ok for the occasional Linux tool, but I want the other thing: the occasional windows tool, but the rest to be Linux.

[black_puppydog]

Hadn't really crossed my mind that the vmware vm might be more performant than the one baked into windows by MS. That's a bit embarassing, isn't it? :P

Ever since I realized I was fighting a system I have no intention of mastering anymore (my brain cycles are too dear to me for that) I stopped engaging and just accepted it as the nuisance it is.

But "just use vmware" seems like an easy enough fix that I might actually go down that route from now on, thanks!