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. Docker (not really VM but I am using Docker WSL2 as opposed to Virtualbox).We have few options when it comes to doing Development or Testing work. I spent a great deal of time and money on various VM platforms so hopefully i can save you the same time/money. You only need Pro if you want to get Hyper-V and WSL2 support without hacking around with Windows preview builds. I recently upgraded my Workstation to a Windows 10 Pro workstation edition. This is from my perspective of using Linux based distros as the main driver.

Virtualbox vs vmware on ubuntu