

There are various tools that are available such as VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V, Horizon 7, etc. The virtual desktop providing tools are used to install another operating system on your device. VMWare is definitely trying hard.Desktop virtualization is a computing phenomenon that allows you to use various operating systems on one physical machine. With the latest version, you can use VMWare with all of the above, WSL, Hyper-V etc etc. Previously if you enabled VMWare Pro you had to disable Hyper-V. However, VMWare Pro 16 has just released support for GPU, OpenGL, DirectX11 but only if you are mainstream Intel user. I stopped using it because I needed GPU passthrough which was not available in muggle edition. VMWare is still your best bet if you use the Desktop on any VM, need clipboard copy and can workaround all the file sharing issues. I had hoped I could just use Hyper-V or WSL2 and get by instead of silly annual upgrades. I used to boot windows and just go into my VMWare Ubuntu Desktop for work. I have never really liked it too much because, but its free and works better than Hyper-V so. Still pretty usable if you need something free. Don't run anything like production on it. Vbox backed, was typical installation on Windows and is still an option. It's not too bad but I have had file corruption which never happened on Docker with vbox. It is slow and Docker will warn you about shared drives. Ubuntu 2020 works fine and performance is decent. VS Code seems to be able to launch this shell. So it's pretty much like using Linux shell on windows which has a lot of advantages when doing development. Its fast, has automatic mount for my drives. Good enough for development work and running bash/zsh so I don't have to remember the difference between ls and dir I can still just launch it from start bar.

Have not tried it but at least you have an option now as opposed to Windows Evaluation copy. Sure you could go read a 100-internet-page on performance, but why. I have used Ubuntu since 2005 and have no issues with it but it just isnt doing well on AMD Threadripper, quite possible its the kernel level issues. It is not stellar but definitely better than Ubuntu. I am really glad to see WSL2 do so much better so now I can actually stop using MacOS or Ubuntu for most of my work and stick to Win10 which has better support for my CPU/Motherboard.
