WSL Distro Terminated abruptly

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@nubebuster

I decided to go with docker

Good decision to use Docker, but Docker Desktop is for developers. Better to run a virtual machine on Windows and install Docker in it. See:

How to automatically start docker in windows 10 without user login

I’m actually curious why Windows users want to run Docker Desktop without user login. Can you help me to understand it? If there is a good reason, maybe even the developers can be convinced about it. As I see currently, when Docker Desktop need to start automatically without a user login, that would mean it is not used for development and the features of Docker Desktop can’t be used. Maybe there are some extensions, but probably most of the tools that can be used as an extension could be used o…

@nubebuster

Are there any logs I can look in to see when this happened, and why

Maybe there are events or errors in the Windows Event Viewer

Event Viewer

@nubebuster

Is there a way I can check if docker desktop and wsl are running correctly from a Powershell script

You can check if wsl works well with the command below in powershell

wsl -l -v

Docker-desktop - WSL distro terminated abruptly

A WSL distro Docker Desktop relies on has exited unexpectedly.This usually happens as a result of an entity terminating WSL (e.g. running wsl --shutdown).