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It still require specific license to use the virtualization (Hyper-V). So far as I am aware, Windows 10 Home license cannot run hyper-v. It needs Pro, Education, or Enterprise license to use the feature (mobile license don't have this feature). Likely nix23 upgraded to Win10 Pro from Win10 Home for this reason.

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You can run WSL on any version of Windows (including Home Edition). Docker can also use WSL2 as its backend, so I rarely need to run VMs on my Windows dev machines anymore.

QEMU and Docker under WSL just seems like it should not work, but it does, and it works well.

>It still require specific license to use the virtualization (Hyper-V)

Sounds like you have problems with reading or clicking links, it's a: Windows 10 Enterprise

>Likely nix23 upgraded to Win10 Pro from Win10 Home for this reason.

WHAT? I run freebsd and develop/maintain sometimes Windows "Apps" with the virtual machine.

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