Open sebbacon opened 3 years ago
You probably know - in my opinion it's much better if the user installs WSL 2 if they can as Docker Desktop will use the WSL 2 engine (I want to say kernel) , in the Docker Desktop settings check the "Use WSL 2 based engine" box. WSL 2 system calls run much faster than WSL 1.
~~ @remlapmot , https://github.com/opensafely-core/opensafely-cli/issues/41#issuecomment-802013525
Windows Home doesn't have Hyper-V support.
But installation on Windows Home should be simpler now: Windows Home does support WSL2 and WSL2 is now the default recommendation from Docker for Docker Desktop. You do still require hardware that supports virtualisation (in other words, Intel VT-x or AMD-V), and that feature to be enabled in the BIOS, if it isn't by default.
This is what the official docs have to say:
Our test user has a "very late" build of Windows 10 Home: they went through the requirements trying to find out if they had SLAT. They added: