Should I be creating a WSL "install" for each project?

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  • podman-desktop-companion

    Podman desktop companion

    • I have a few WSL distros but in one of them I also have Podman installed which works with and without systemd enabled. Later I noticed that Docker also works without systemd though. And my choice of GUI to manage containers is Podman Desktop Companion (cross-platform) but I rarely use it.

  • distrobox

    Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

    • Hey, did you try Distrobox or nsbox.dev by any chance? I sometimes use Distrobox with Podman (supports Docker too) to have some integrated terminals from a different environment than my host/base which also shares the user home etc.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • wsl2_scripts

    wsl ubuntu scripts for backing up and restoring instances

    • This is all available from my Github Repository

  • wsl-distrod

    Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.

    • In case you're using an older version of WSL that doesn't support systemd, you can give Distrod a try.

  • distribution-spec

    OCI Distribution Specification

    • It can install & setup systemd easily, or let you to create a new WSL distro with systemd, based on the many distros available from opencontainers.org.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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