WSL works pretty well for typical command line usage (your typical "grep | sort | uniq" stuff) or for "this command line tool only runs/compiles on linux" usecases. If you push it much more than the abstraction starts getting leaky and you have to get more involved (though WSL2 can be pushed a lot more, e.g. getting systemd running in WSL2 doesn't seem that bad [1]).

1: https://gist.github.com/djfdyuruiry/6720faa3f9fc59bfdf6284ee...