WSL container is now available for public preview

[soheilpro]

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wsl-container-is-now-available-for-public-preview/

[mcraiha]

There has been some speculation that this will be really bad for Docker Desktop licensing. https://www.xda-developers.com/docker-on-windows-is-about-to...

[spacington → mcraiha]

Even apple jumps on it now with apple container.

It's time

[m-p-3 → mcraiha]

Isn't Podman Desktop a decent alternative?

[tuwtuwtuwtuw]

Let's say I clone a git repo onto my NTFS drive. After that, I open that as a dev container in VS Code. Would +x permissions on shell scripts work then? In this scenario, the +x attribute is set on the file in git.

I know NTFS doesn't support it, and trying to understand what the workflow looks like.

[Neywiny → tuwtuwtuwtuw]

My recommendation is that sadly it's just not worth it. NTFS not being case sensitive has caused me uncountable lost hours for why repos wouldn't compile. I don't understand people choosing to rely on case sensitivity for anything because it's a readability issue for me, but people do. The amount of times I've just re-cloned in the wsl drive and my weirdness goes away is too high

[tuwtuwtuwtuw → Neywiny]

I'm cloning into WSL today. But I don't follow how that would work for these new WSL containers.

[awson → Neywiny]

NTFS is case sensitive.

[baby_souffle → tuwtuwtuwtuw]

Ntfs supports alternative data streams so they probably use that to record the unix permission byres

[axus]

I hope this plays nice with regular WSL, and my non-standard networking configuration.

[craigaloewen]

Nice! :)