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What do you mean without a VM? I guess you don't count docker/podman as VMs then?

Likely that most devs want to use Unix tools — terminal, etc.

Those aren't VMs -- they're containers.

Only on Linux - on MacOS and Windows, you have to do virtualization for containers.

Unless you do use WSL1 as your container runner. Nobody does this but I do not get why.

I hardly can imagine how it works for you, because WSL1 basically lacks any option for containers be it namespaces or cgroups? Netfilter? Bridges?

Feel free to correct me and share successfull cases with wsl1 and containers