> I am very much against this trend by major vendors to push Linux but just as a "VM" or similarly contained crap. MS is doing it (WSL), Google is doing it (pKVM Terminal), etc.

I guess they are reasonable if you want to use a unix-like terminal environment but don't want go your way to flash your hard drive to install an entire new OS.

I myself use linux under WSL because my SSD capacity is very small already and I can't afford reducing it futher partitioning for another OS.

For the record, "partitioning it" is exactly what you did if you used WSL2.