Andrew Pruski has a wacky idea that just might work:
I’ve been playing around a bit with WSL2 and noticed that you can import TAR files into it to create your own custom distributions.
This means that we can export docker containers and run them as WSL distros!
So, let’s build a custom SQL Server 2019 docker image, run a container, and then import that container into WSL2…so that we have a custom distro running SQL Server 2019.
Read on to see how.