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Mini-splits are awesome, they heat and cool but are very expensive and a bit of an eye sore. The summers are getting hotter here to the point of needing AC.
If it's a rental, then a landlord would need to install the heat pump, as it requires going thru walls and adding wiring, etc. So window unit is probably best bet if renting. For homeowners, highly recommend a heat pump. Expensive to install, but super efficient and does both heat and AC, and adds value to the home.
A heat pump is simply an AC with a reversing valve that allows the refrigerant to be used to both heat and cool a given space.
Heat pumps are more eco friendly when you're replacing a gas based heating system with this more efficient refrigerant based heating system. If you only care about cooling, there are AC units with higher efficiencies than the cooling efficiency of many heat pumps.
Window AC units are fine, I have one in my room. The new ones are even pretty affordable and pretty energy efficient. We have one in the living room too that's never given any lack of heat.
I just got a furnace replaced and heat pump installed, happy to recommend who I used
Don't waste money on a window AC, they are inefficient, and if it breaks no one wants to work on them. A mini-split is an efficient choice as you can control the temperature for each room and they don't use as much energy. But a heat pump is another great option if you hoping to stay comfortable and not spend a ton o your energy bill each month