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At $WORK, I more or less can only develop on a Windows machine. Getting Docker approval is needlessly painful. Until Docker and WSL are Microsoft standard tool

At $WORK, I more or less can only develop on a Windows machine. Getting Docker approval is needlessly painful. Until Docker and WSL are Microsoft standard tools, then yes, these solutions are required.

Kwpolska 4y ago
How is WSL not a Microsoft standard tool? What makes it different from Visual Studio or VSCode or whatever, which is also never going to be built into Windows? Why can you get Python installed but not WSL?
- 323 4y ago
  WSL is a full Linux/Ubuntu? So you can install whatever you can apt-get/wget into it? I can see that being a problem in restricted environments.
  - Kwpolska 4y ago
    For a software developer, who can run any software they want (because they need to be able to run the software they’re paid to work on), including software that could subvert all the restrictions anyway?
    - fbdab103 4y ago
      Clearly you are not familiar with corporate IT and "security" compliance.
      - Kwpolska 4y ago
        I kinda am (though luckily not subject to it), and I find it laughable.
  - eddsh1994 4y ago
    If that's really an issue, corporate IT can have an air gapped repo used for apt-get. I use purely air gapped systems at $WORK and it's not too bad.