> I remember purchasing a brand new HP Tablet for under $100

> When you purchase an Apple product, any Apple product, you know it's going to be at worst a middling experience.

Is there an apple tablet that costs less than 100$ so we can compare the two ?

No, because Apple has standards. Which is what Microsoft is trying to establish.

you don't need the 2004 update, if you have 1903 or newer, you can install it.

[https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-2-support-is-...]

Ah yes, just found that too. (It's only two weeks old; apparently I missed this piece of news.) That page is particularly unhelpful though, since I'm not getting that update in Windows Update either. I am now downloading it from https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB456... , a link I found in the comments at the bottom. Update: yup, got WSL2 working.

security, add to that pages load faster without JS or with JS disabled.

> Chrome has better UI

if you are talking about buttons next to the address bar, like the home button, then you can customize that area and let it look nearly identical to Chrome.

With CSS you can even have tiny tabs like Chrome.