Comment by tonymet

As a Linux developer on Windows, I find this feature really compelling. I had been doing this by importing debian and alpine images manually, to reduce the scope of agents to a limited vm instance with limited credentials.

With WSL, you can control which Windows dirs are accessible (read or read-write). you can easily clone new VMs (distros ) as a new instance.

WSL containers adds convenience and consistency to the manual steps I was doing before.

for example: a primary debian developer env, a second Debian maintainer/developer instance, multiple alpine containers (for each agent stack, one with cloud keys, one with messaging keys).

This adds a very feature rich vm and container experience on top of WSL2 , which was great to begin with.