I think NI is included as part of the UK and, if we're being honest, it's rare that they visit anything more than an hour from London or Edinburgh so having most of the rest of the UK is push too.
That's the best bit about WSL (at least, version 2) is that it is a VM running a full version of Linux using Microsoft Hypervisor. There's a bunch of drivers included that allow Windows and Linux to share filesystems and if you run Wayland/X apps in Linux they run on the Windows desktop.
I took a rental offroading in Death Valley once. Covered in chips outside; inside drenched in powdery talc-like dust; and utterly, comprehensively, entirely fucked suspension. The staff at the rental office don't give a shit as long as it drives and can be rinsed off.
One hundred percent go for USFF. Even the cheapest, most basic processor will smash server roles because it's not having to power desktop applications, graphics, window managers, etc.
This used to work when the guy worked for the restaurant and had, like, three pizzas to deliver and an empty backseat, but now they'll have six different bags with food from nine takeaways organised with four different delivery apps and doing some realtime Travelling Salesman maths.
Your cognitive ability changes with you. Your human thoughts, emotions, memories, reasoning, skills, understanding and desires are destroyed.