I've had a lot of success using podman with pyenv for python versions, and plain old venv for the actual environment. All of this lives within WSL, but you can still access everything locally with localhost://

If you just want to use windows, pyenv-win exists and works pretty well; just set a local version, then instantiate your venv.

uv does certainly feel like the future, but I have no interest in participating in a future VC rugpull.