WSL container is now available for public preview

soheilpro 47 points 9 comments June 29, 2026
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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...

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.

axus

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

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