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Re:Docker's Second Death by Kwpolska on Sunday December 06, 2020 @04:33PM (#25326872)
Docker for Windows is capable of running Linux containers (on top of WSL2 or a Docker-specific Hyper-V VM), and it can also run Windows containers. You can only pick one of those, but if you want to containerize Windows software, Docker can do this. (If you’re on Windows 10 Home, only the WSL2 backend is available.)
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Re:Docker's Second Death by crazysim on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:21PM (#25328440)
You can actually run both Windows and Linux containers at the same time. You don't need to pick "one of these". I think the flag to switch between them on the fly is "--platform".
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