I just recently discovered that VMWare got purchased by Broadcom, and that performance took a hit for quite a while before the latest version (sorry for the Reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/1m1u2kj/vmware_workstation_1764_finally_a_ray_of_hope/)
I also learned that Hyper-V is actually quite good nowadays, and just switched to it recently for when I have to use Windows as the main OS. It runs quite well.
virtualbox is an option.
usually I only bother with linux on windows via WSL2, since my work only allows windows machines
I’m not sure what the situation is now, but does WSL2 allow to run GUI apps? I vaguely remember the first WSL was mostly for terminal stuff
You can - it has some additional setup.
I mention WSL2 solely as what I use to virtualise linux. on my personal stuff I run linux as the host
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps
Interesting, thanks
VirtualBox performance is still pretty bad.
You can download VMware Workstation for free.