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At work when I work on Windows (currently stuck using Mac for the first time in my career at work), but on Windows I would use https://gitforwindows.org/ which also uses msys2 and that is a very popularly supported free product using msys2 on Windows. If you ever forget the URL, search for "git bash for windows".
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You could try to use the Win32 debug API in the same way like Linux UML by using ptrace. But it would probably still be much slower because of missing things like PTRACE_SYSCALL.
More performant would be a noMMU variant of UML for Windows, supporting only PIE executables, similar to nabla-linux [1]. This is also quite similar to how mssql for Linux works NT kernel+Win32 in a single usermode process (single address space) [2]. Interestingly, mssql also uses memory protection keys to recover a bit of fault tolerance but last time I checked Win32 does not have an API for MPKs.
[1] https://github.com/nabla-containers/nabla-linux
[2] https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf
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Have you tried nushell (https://www.nushell.sh/)? It embeds GNU coreutils written in Rust, so it feels like Linux even on a Windows machine.
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WSL2 is analogue to coLinux and WSL1 is analogue to Cygwin. WSL2 is definitely what you want in place of coLinux. However, both have merit in what they can achieve depending on the circumstances. There is long thread on Github about the switch between the two, with many people asking to maintain both.
[1] - State of WSL1 · microsoft/WSL · Discussion - https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/discussions/4022#discussion...
