what do you mean? that's still the only way to work as a human in windows. wsl1 almost replaced it, but obviously they scrapped it.

if you must use windows, it's because you will compile for windows. so you install MSYS, which is a linux distro-ish compiled native for windows. and do your work.

wsl2 (and this apple thing) is just a meme. if you're working in it, you're better of just installing Linux or ssh'ing to a server.

shrug. I haven't owned a Windows machine in years at this point. It's one of those things like PHP that I just decided my life was better off without.