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.
fdisk 😉
But seriously, I’d say see if for your use case you can get away with either WSL, Docker Desktop, or a combination of the two. That’ll be way less heavy than running a full Linux system on Windows. Failing that, my recommendation is VirtualBox.