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wongarsuyesterday at 7:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

The ability to run docker containers as wsl instances looks nifty. A bit more overhead since they now run as a VM instead of a container, but you get the ability to start a shell with Windows terminal or access files with Explorer (and thus every program running in Windows)


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osigurdsonyesterday at 8:27 PM

Perhaps I misunderstand your comment but when you run docker / podman in Windows, you are using WSL / HyperV.

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Chris2048yesterday at 8:46 PM

How does this compare to running the containers in one of the WSL VMs? Can't you do all the same things via the host VM?