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

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Miguel

In my case this was because my linux distro was still on wsl version 1. you have to

  • upgrade your system-wide wsl version from 1 to 2
  • upgrade your distro version ( wsl --set-version 2 )
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ajburley

Yes! Worked for me too. I had upgraded my system-wide WSL to 2 and set the default version to 2, but what I hadn't done was set the version for my specific installed distribution using --set-version.