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Have you considered devcontainers?

Its use results in carrying entire development environments with you, and because it is using containerization these will not clutter your host OS.

Using DevPod (https://devpod.sh/) you are not locked into Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code, but you can use whatever tool you want.

IMO this kind of setup will provide a much better DX than running a bunch of VMs eating away the resources of your laptop.