@nikkojail almost all has been said.
Recently I was tinkering with Windows Linux Subsystem on Windows11, and run into wifi adapter issues as well. It's not a Workstation-only issue, but people are starting comparisons with their preferred type 2 hypervisor product. Here some common pros/cons for WSL.
Pros
You can use kali-linux and a few other distros from the wsl distro "marketplace". Activating wsl is easy but you must have local administrative rights on your laptop/workstation to configure networking, adapters, etc.
GPU support in WSL2.
Neutral
Microsoft is forcing the integration of devices with new capabilities in business units for wsl developers and game development kit developers. Keep in mind that their learning curve with xbox kinect sensors and peripheral component interconnect speed is at least fifteen years old now.
There is no paid support business modell for WSL.
Cons
You can't deliver wsl distro vm units across endpoints. No configuration management. It's a local configuration only.
Time source (!!), pci devices, usb devices (through usbipd), typically attaching/sharing audio, gpu, camera, storage mismatch prevention, multiple network paths, etc. - that "game engine" has limited peripheral support, also for wifi adapters.
It is complicated with the whole chain of application configuration, iptables, wsl file, .wslconfig, ethernet adapter vEthernet (WSL (Hyper-V firewall)), ethernet adapter vEthernet (default switch), bluetooth and/or wlan adapters. Let's say you have an attached usb ethernet-adapter, do not forget the classic windows firewall and maybe you are using antivirus vpn or cisco vpn as well. There is no network config manager like in Photon OS.
For a bunch of peripheral devices, you have to recompile the wsl kernel to make use of them. It's not plug'n'play. It's a Linux-style of business.
There is no long-time support. Wsl1, wsl2 often breaks with newer distros.
With strengthened Broadcom there is a chance now that the development and integration of software drivers becomes "number one" topic. For all those Bcm94350, Bcm94360, etc. Software drivers, Software drivers in software drivers (concept of vmxnet3), Tanzu ci/cd tested - this is all about doing the right things right, for all those bus types. And, just to have it mentioned, in ten years radio isotope batteries will become a mass product. Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. I think Paul Maritz said that fifteen years ago.
With VMware Workstation (and VMware vCenter Converter) I strongly believe you get thought-out concepts of resource encapsulation control, support for peripheral devices, management and sbom security.
