What do you mean by updated scheduler? Task Scheduler? It looks the same as it did in the older Windows to me.

I love WSL but what does it do that cygwin didn't? I guess let you use the distro directly including package manager. But a VM can do that. And WSL2 is just Hyper-V virtualization, that's all it is.

So it's nothing really new here, if you want this on Windows 7, then just install Virtualbox/Hyper-V/whatever, create a Ubuntu VM (with shared folders), configure it to launch at Windows startup, and create a launcher shortcut to SSH into it.