From the Adafruit blog I learned of this awesome video summarizing the great animatronic restaurants I patronized in my youth. I recall many birthday parties at Showbiz Pizza Place where my friends and I would burn through rolls of quarters in the facility’s arcade but also sit down and enjoy Billy Bob and crew’s performance while scarfing down pizza. Too bad I never took any pictures or videos of those events. What great memories, though!
Month: July 2021
After I finished installing Docker on my Windows 10 Home machine, I started up the application and was promptly greeted with a friendly message:
Access Denied
The message included a statement that my account needed to be part of the docker-users group in order to use Docker.
No problem. I logged into my machine with my admin account and opened up Computer Management to access the Local Users and Groups section so that I could add my developer account to the group. Only…the Local Users and Groups section wasn’t there! Er, what?
It turns out this option isn’t available through the Computer Management user interface on a Windows 10 Home system. Fortunately, it is available at the command line (here’s a nicer walkthrough about halfway down the page).
All I had to do was open a command shell as administrator and run the following:
net localgroup "docker-users" "brad" /add
After a restart, my Docker application ran as expected.
I clearly missed the announcement: Docker Desktop for Windows will now run on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 2.
Up until a few days ago, I had understood that I would only be able to run Docker for Windows if I spent the $100-$200 to upgrade my operating system from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro, since Pro includes virtualization features needed for Docker that Home does not. At work, I run Docker Desktop for Windows and hoped I could leverage that work experience in some of my home projects.
So, I had resigned myself to learning about the docker/linux experience at home while enjoying the Windows-based experiences at work.
Over the weekend, I upgraded to WSL 2–a surprisingly easy upgrade–and then for kicks, installed Windows Terminal. Then, I prepared for disappointment as I started researching the Docker install on WSL. And then I clicked on the link from the Microsoft article and read this:
Docker Desktop for Windows is available for free.
Requires Microsoft Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise 64-bit, or Windows 10 Home 64-bit with WSL 2.
Awesome! So I can get the full Docker Windows experience without having to upgrade to Win10 Pro. Exciting!
The install went smoothly, so I’ll hopefully have one or two Docker-type posts in the future.
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