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Docker on Windows can run linux containers just the same as docker on linux.. it uses a virtualbox vm with linux and runs containers inside that

• no_wizard 7y ago
  This is not the case. It uses Hyper-V (which is multitudes faster in every benchmark I’ve seen and much more stable) https://docs.docker.com/machine/get-started/ https://docs.docker.com/machine/get-started/
  • crispinb 7y ago
    And WSL2 takes it a stage further, running linux-native docker on a linux kernel (albeit wsl2 is itself running in a specialised Hyper-V machine). I haven't used Docker with WSL2 yet, but in other uses I've found WSL2 extremely fast. As long as you stay within its vhd, file access is ext4-quick. And on my machine running the geekbench cli gave me almost identical results to a native linux install.
  • rgblambda 7y ago
    Not with Home edition, though you'd be ill advised to use that in a production server