[jeroenhd]

Have you tried a standard VM? It sucks that WSL2 isn't working right yet, but IntelliJ has some pretty extensive tooling for working over a (virtual) network. It's possible that the sleep issue plagues normal VMs as well, but maybe it's worth a shot?

You'd lose out on things like hardware accelerated graphics but reading your description it sounds like that's not really something you rely on anyway.

[dantaro]

I do run ubuntu 22.04 in a VM, it works fine for things that aren't graphical and it has the usual performance penalties that come with connecting via a RDP connection, but it's a nice alternative when I need it. I haven't tried IntelliJ via virtual network to the VM though, that's a novel idea, I'll give it a go!