With frequent bad reports regarding windows hardware, what’s the hardware to run wsl? I really did not like my experience with the XPS13

I have a Dell Precision 15", and it works great, as far as I can tell. I do ML stuff in docker Jupyter notebooks without a problem. Docker builds seem fast, definitely as fast as my previous laptop (a macbook pro retina from ...2014?).

And how are the keyboard/trackpad?

Wsl is no virtualization it is more like docker. Therefore, you do not need a extra beefy system to handle wsl.

It's more like Wine

It's a thin compatibility layer like git bash, not a VM. Super lightweight.

I meant which laptops are popular. Ie non-horrible touchpad, screen, other issues.