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Discussion on: Install Docker on Windows (WSL) without Docker Desktop

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Karoly Negyesi of House AstraZeneca

I will readily admit being a Linux newbie despite I installed Slackware with Linux 0.99pl15 for the first time from a stack of floppies early 1994. I am still running Linux on servers to this day. I ran Linux dual boot from 2000-2004 and then as a daily driver 2004-2017. It was a miserable experience. The choices are running Ubuntu where upgrading every six months shatters your OS so badly you can't work for days or Arch where upgrades often break one of your printer/scanner/Bluetooth. Connecting to any sort of enterprise-y VPN or WiFi just doesn't work. I don't care whether it's the fault of F5 or the community for not working -- if I can't VPN in, I can't work.

So the reason I use Windows is because that's where the driver support is. Plain and simple. And I use WSL2 because Linux excels at CLI and daemons.