Comment by pxc
3 years ago
> [WSL] is fine for running simple docker containers
WSL is passable for running Docker containers, and that is if you add a ton of complicated socket forwarding machinery and Window-side service management automation to it, which is what Docker Desktop does.
Without that, WSL2's lack of a proper init system means that you literally don't even have a way to automatically start `dockerd`. And you have the same story for the integration of that Docker daemon with the other Linux WSL hosts.
> Comparing it to the real linux is like comparing powershell prompt to full windows.
True, although in a way this comparison is unflattering to Linux because PowerShell is generally better made, better documented, and less hostile to automation or customization than most software that comes with Windows.
> WSL is passable for running Docker containers, and that is if you add a ton of complicated socket forwarding machinery and Window-side service management automation to it, which is what Docker Desktop does.
That's exactly the reason why I mentioned simple docker containers.
Once I needed to make some of them work with macvlan/ipvlan, and docker desktop on mac and windows were both completely unusable.