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Re:Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement by dangelov on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @09:58AM (#28839719)
I use VS Code's native integration with WSL. So VS Code runs as a native Windows app with nearly everything you'd expect, but the actual files being read/saved are inside WSL. Works great with Vagrant, Docker for Desktop, Git etc.
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Re:Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement by nickjj on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:04PM (#28842172)
Yep, this works really well and for directly accessing files in WSL 2's file system from Windows, @lenova's sibling comment goes over that process.

To expand on that, I also have this path in my Windows explorer "Quick access" list: \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\home\nick

It's a shortcut to my home directory inside of WSL 2 for quick access. It's useful in the cases where I want to drag / drop a photo or something from Windows into WSL 2's world.

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