Docker: "Build, Manage and Secure Your Apps Anywhere. Your Way."

Also Docker: "To run Linux in Windows, sacrifice 3 virgins."

How much to run docker on windows with linux containers

Step 1. Enable HyperV
Step 2. Run docker
Step 3. Create your million dollar app idea
Step 4. Profit.

@Codex404 yeah but i'd like to use all software runnable on my pc.

I'm not really a fan of being unable to use real VMs with Virtual Box because of their highly linux-optimized runtime.

Don't get me wrong, i like docker.
But on windows it's plain shit.

@nitwhiz you can always use hyperV for linux. Works a lot better in than any VM software Ive ever used.

@Codex404 or i could use docker in WSL and don't do some weirdass setup.

@nitwhiz which is as shit as can be.

@Codex404 that's why?

@nitwhiz Docker for windows is not designed to be used without HyperV

@nitwhiz I have 2 words

"Docker toolbox"

HyperV requires windows pro

@saltyJeff is that stable now? Two years ago everyone was glad docker started using HyperV because it just worked. Toolbox needed so many hacks and was still unworkable.

@Codex404 more stable than wsl and more free than win pro

@saltyJeff actually had to work with that toolbox thingie.

My main concern is the amount of extra understanding necessary to get stuff up and running.
On linux it's like `docker` and done. But with Windows it became one hell of a science.

@ganjaman this is your kind of rant :3

@nitwhiz you need to allow it to install mingw and the docker quickstart shortcut

@saltyJeff and that's another thing. MSYS vs WSL has a clear winner for me tbh.