But what if you do have a Windows 10 edition that supports Hyper-V, but you only want to install the Hyper-V PowerShell module without actually installing Hyper-V?

Installing WSL 2 onto Windows 10 used to be a long process, but that's a thing of the past.

For the longest time, the open source community had a concept called 'public package repositories.' Microsoft never had the same -- until the PowerShell Gallery.