WSL container is now available for public preview

(devblogs.microsoft.com)

56 points | by soheilpro a day ago ago

10 comments

  • mcraiha a day ago

    There has been some speculation that this will be really bad for Docker Desktop licensing. https://www.xda-developers.com/docker-on-windows-is-about-to...

    • spacington a day ago

      Even apple jumps on it now with apple container.

      It's time

    • m-p-3 a day ago

      Isn't Podman Desktop a decent alternative?

  • axus a day ago

    I hope this plays nice with regular WSL, and my non-standard networking configuration.

  • craigaloewen a day ago

    Nice! :)

  • tuwtuwtuwtuw a day ago

    Let's say I clone a git repo onto my NTFS drive. After that, I open that as a dev container in VS Code. Would +x permissions on shell scripts work then? In this scenario, the +x attribute is set on the file in git.

    I know NTFS doesn't support it, and trying to understand what the workflow looks like.

    • Neywiny a day ago

      My recommendation is that sadly it's just not worth it. NTFS not being case sensitive has caused me uncountable lost hours for why repos wouldn't compile. I don't understand people choosing to rely on case sensitivity for anything because it's a readability issue for me, but people do. The amount of times I've just re-cloned in the wsl drive and my weirdness goes away is too high

      • awson 21 hours ago

        NTFS is case sensitive.

    • baby_souffle a day ago

      Ntfs supports alternative data streams so they probably use that to record the unix permission byres

  • liquid153 a day ago

    [dead]