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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
by shawnz 6y 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.
- Macha 6y agoDocker support is precisely the sort of feature that would have required significantly more work to support in WSL1 than WSL2.
- shawnz 6y agoYes, admittedly loop mounts and Docker were an easy add for WSL 2 and would have been significantly more complicated for WSL 1.
- peteri 6y agoDocker 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.
- shawnz 6y agoDocker 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)
- pjmlp 6y agoDocker 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.