WSL2 (Windows) is still not up to it
Disclaimer: These are just personal thoughts/opinions from the author, inside his own head. He doesn't give a shit.
After testing out the things myself, I'd say - WSL2 is cool and all, much improvements but the experience is still worse than having a full blown linux distro. Moreover, there are some stuff that works on WSL2 in Windows 11, but doesn't work on WSL2 in Windows 10. WHY?
Take the network 'mirrored' mode for example. That was introduced last year. Available on WSL for Windows 11, but not on Windows 10. Yes it's still possible replicate or make it work on Windows 10, but you'd have configure a bunch of things and get involve in a tangling of your own research - unlike on Windows 11, where it's easy as creating a 'WSL config' file and telling the network service to do mirrored mode. Moreover, you'd have to be on a certain update/build of Windows to even make it work, even if you're on Windows 11. They could've documented that easily.
And yet they didn't (like not even now), people on certain builds of Windows 11 or any build on Windows 10 are finding out after trying it out themselves.
Overall it's okay, I guess. But yeah I'd say if you're a Windows user your whole life and never use a Linux before (and want to), don't use WSL. Just spin up any distro on your device from scratch, the installation part is so easy compared to years ago, and the things you can do is just endless. But if you PC game 24/7, stick with Windows for now. Linux is getting there yes, but there are still some hiccups with certain games.