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by shawnz 2042 days ago
It's clear that they are not enthusiastic about delivering new features to WSL1. Consider how WSL2 now exclusively features CUDA support, Wayland support, loop mounts, Docker, etc.
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Macha 2042 days ago
Docker support is precisely the sort of feature that would have required significantly more work to support in WSL1 than WSL2.
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shawnz 2042 days ago
Yes, admittedly loop mounts and Docker were an easy add for WSL 2 and would have been significantly more complicated for WSL 1.
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pjmlp 2041 days ago
Docker can also make use of Windows containers, and that is probably easier when everything is running on top of Hyper-V, as type 1 hypervisor.
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peteri 2041 days ago
Docker works fine with WSL1, I don't think I can use WSL2 at work as we're waiting on the next LTS version of Windows.
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shawnz 2041 days ago
Docker can't be hosted on WSL1. You can use the Docker client on WSL1 to communicate with a Docker host running on WSL2 or Hyper-V, though (which is how Docker Desktop works)
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