Why should it be slow? I get 200ms for the frontend in the virtual box image!
Seems more like an issue with the resources on your computer.
You can use docker, too. But docker itself is not designed to be used on windows, since it is a linux based software. You can try it, but I don’t think it will work properly, since file-system access is different on windows hosts: https://docs.shopware.com/en/shopware-platform-dev-en/getting-started/installation-guide#docker-installation-recommended