Comment by smitty1e
One other nit was that WSL2 does not expose the USB ports to the Arch guest very easily.
So I had to install USBIP on the Windows11 host, and bring in a tool chain and compile a Linxux 6.x kernel in order to add external storage for my QGIS data.
WSL2's default kernel has USBIP modules built-in. I am using it daily at work for FW development. So I don't think that's your problem. However, WSL kernel might be missing specific USB device classes. Luckily they rolled out kernel module support lately and you can compile modules instead of the full kernel now.