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Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by dgellow on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:45AM (#26512618)
My main issue is the lack of support for serial (so, no USB support): https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2195.

Other that this I love Windows 10 + WSL2 as a dev environment.

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Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by tyingq on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:50AM (#26512669)
It's a little clunky, but you could use a Windows RFC2217 remote serial server with socat on the Linux side to make a virtual serial port tied to a real one. I've done this (albeit not with WSL), and it did work.

https://gist.github.com/DraTeots/e0c669608466470baa6c

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Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by tyingq on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:33PM (#26516834)
Too late to edit, but there's also an unapplied pull request that seems to make usb passthrough work:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/pull/45

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Re:Docker for Mac M1 RC by rcarmo on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:27PM (#26516767)
I have WSL1 alongside WSL2 for this. WSL1 works fine with my FTDI adapters to flash ESP8266 and all.
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