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WSL vs. Dual Booting vs. virtualbox
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WSL2 is "fine". It has some performance issues when accessing files on the windows side of things from sick
On a technical level it's a Linux VM running containers for Distributions that get some mounts and for WSLg a directx video device.
WSLg also provides an X server, Wayland compositor and a Pulse server so most gui apps "just work".
Good way to start learning or get a taste for things, and easier than a VM to get started.
You don't get the immersion of a new OS when you use wsl though. Which is fine if you just want some Linux compatibility for things like docker, but if you want the whole "desktop experience" then a VM is a better option. Either Hyper-V or VirtualBox will give you that with reasonable performance.