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zodiac on June 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all

Regarding "cross-platform": Docker for Windows used to be really terrible IMO (relied on VirtualBox, did not translate WSL paths, etc). I never managed to get the networking between VirtualBox, WSL and applications (e.g. Chrome running in Windows) working properly.

Thankfully Microsoft rewrote WSL 2 in a way that makes it work much better with Docker.

geewee on June 18, 2020 [–]

I've also had some bad experiences with Docker for windows but that was quite a few (2+ years ago) - since then it's mostly been smooth sailing for me, even without WSL

zodiac on June 19, 2020 | [–]

My experience was that it used to be bad specifically because of the bad interactions with WSL (1)

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