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Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by craigaloewen on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:51AM (#48720879)
Nice! :)
Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by mcraiha on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:34PM (#48721415)
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...
Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by spacington on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:48PM (#48721622)
Even apple jumps on it now with apple container.

It's time

Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by m-p-3 on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:36PM (#48727166)
Isn't Podman Desktop a decent alternative?
Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by tuwtuwtuwtuw on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:43PM (#48723379)
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.

Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by baby_souffle on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:42PM (#48726308)
Ntfs supports alternative data streams so they probably use that to record the unix permission byres
Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by Neywiny on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:34PM (#48726716)
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
Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by awson on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:25AM (#48728472)
NTFS is case sensitive.
Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by tuwtuwtuwtuw on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:05AM (#48743214)
I'm cloning into WSL today. But I don't follow how that would work for these new WSL containers.
Re:WSL container is now available for public preview by axus on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:42PM (#48724934)
I hope this plays nice with regular WSL, and my non-standard networking configuration.