In addition, WSL 2 provides improvements to file system sharing and boot time.ĭocker Desktop uses the dynamic memory allocation feature in WSL 2 to improve the resource consumption. With Docker Desktop running on WSL 2, users can leverage Linux workspaces and avoid maintaining both Linux and Windows build scripts. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 is a full Linux kernel built by Microsoft, which lets Linux distributions run without managing virtual machines.
