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Re: I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can

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Post by p0w3n3d » Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 8:47 AM UTC

Cu3PO42 wrote: post #54

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Ah wayland. Many things changed since the time I've been using Linux in my professional work. However does Wayland support connectivity? I.e. can you display Wayland session on another computer via TCP/UDP? If not then Wayland won't work with wsl2 which is basically a VM

Not in the same way that X does. However, Microsoft specifically implemented an RDP backend into Weston, which ships with WSL2. So the Linux Windows you see are actually being sent over RDP transparently.

wow RDP in Linux. The thing we used to fight for. I must see this. I'm really out of date

Re: I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can

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Post by k_bx » Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 1:47 PM UTC

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Thanks, this looks awesome! Will play around on my CI/CD first to see if it's any good for the build-server to add trixie builds. Might use in prod deploys later.

Update: I looked at it. Overall it looks very promising on paper. However, the bootstrapping process is so much work that I've ended up ditching it for now. I don't want to "automate the automation" yet. Trying out podman now.

Tried Podman. It looked quite promising, but failed me: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/26899

Trying Incus now

Re: I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can

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Post by hauxir » Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 12:42 AM UTC

I run my whole development environment in a docker container. Not desktop mind you but my neovim/tmux/fish setup.

This allows me to sandbox my whole environment so i can run it exactly the same no matter the machine, including all packages and editor plugins.

If anyone wants to check it out it's at https://github.com/hauxir/dotfiles

the devenv.sh file describes my entire environment.

Re: I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can

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Post by gregoryl » Thu, Sep 04, 2025, 10:55 PM UTC

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I thought docker only supports windows as a host if you enable wsl, in which case you're running on hyper v and Linux kernel as part of wsl2, so absolutely Linux tech on a Linux vm on Windows... Am I wrong?

You are. You can run Docker for Windows, and run Windows binaries in reasonably isolated containers, without involving Linux at all [1]. Much like you run Linux containers on Linux without involving Windows. It's Docker Desktop what assumes WSL; Docker engine does not. Also, you seem to need Windows Server; IDK if it can be made to work on a Pro version. [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsco…

Windows containers work* on Windows 11 Pro.

That said, work is a strong word; Windows containers in general are pretty jank.