It's not really conducive to use a separate machine for these development use cases; WSL is integrated to the Windows side more tightly than a separate VM is. For instance, you can launch Windows EXEs directly from the Linux side as if they were native, so you can have a single script that runs tools from both sides natively, on the same computer, without remoting or SSH or anything like that. This all works with WSL1 too (which doesn't use virtualization), it's just a lot slower.