Every WSL distro is one VHDX file. Copied a substantial one off an Azure VM straight down to a local PC, imported it, and it rocked on the first boot.

Every WSL distro is one VHDX file. Copied a substantial one off an Azure VM straight down to a local PC, imported it, and it rocked on the first boot.
Every dev workload moved to WSL, and it lined up almost exactly with coding agents showing up. Codex still fights Windows over sandboxing, which stopped being a problem once Linux took the compute.
Power BI since 2015, and Desktop meant Windows from day one. Threw Linux on an old laptop once and loved how snappy it felt. Never got to stay.