the one thing linux really hasnt been made on par with winblows yet is the dreadful amount of options for android simulation -the most popular choice seems to be Waydroid, but its such an unneeded hassle to set up at all -genymotion is just slow -and than you have things like android x86 which entirely defeat the point of an emulator
nearly all android emulators are VMs, usually vbox, common ones include bluestacks memuplay. WSA uses hyper-v infranstructure. GooglePlay Games uses crosvm
On Windows, yes, on Linux the common way to run Android apps is to use standard LXC containers through Anbox, Waydroid, and their forks. You can run an emulator but there’s usually no reason to because Android can just as easily make use of the existing Linux kernel without all of the overhead.
there are lots of reasons I myself use a healthy blend of waydroid and Bliss+Qemu