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Discussion on: Docker is not suitable for windows.

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nricks

it's there because you could potentially run windows containers on it (so, for giggles mostly)

my colleagues noticed a slight improvement after switching to wsl2 instead of having an actual vm managed by hyper-v, around a yr ago, though.

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Yogesh Galav

I noticed both are installed on my system,
running cmd "wsl --list --verbose" shows docker-desktop and docker,
and also there are 6 services starting with hyper-v,
should I disable hyper-v?

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nricks • Edited

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/...

you need to make sure docker is on wls2, from the link above you should see some general info on wsl and a compare between wsl1 and wsl2.

I run docker on linux but just the engine without docker desktop, so I'm not sure where to look for the right options in the menus.

Anyways, they should be available for sure during docker desktop installation as a preference. So, I don't think it's about disabling virtualization system-wise, but rather about making sure your wls2 is correctly setup and your docker desktop install runs on it.