Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) has brought the Linux kernel to Windows. Does that really matter, you might ask, since WSL already did an excellent job of emulating Linux? Oh yeah it does. It matters a heck of a lot, according to Docker Senior Software Developer Simon Ferquel.
In an engineering blog, Ferquel explained that Docker, the company which made containers hotter than hot, was switching its Docker Desktop development platform for Windows from full-scale Hyper-V to the ligher WSL2 Hyper-V virtual machine (VM).
