Wsl on I am Lino

Installing Docker (without selling your soul to Desktop)

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a moment in every tech career when someone tells you: “install Docker Desktop, next step.” You comply, reboot, accept three EULAs without reading them, and after a while your laptop sounds like a jet engine and Docker Desktop decides to eat more RAM than your IDE, your open Chrome tabs, and all your unresolved trauma combined.

Then you go back to the fine print and discover that, past a certain company size, Docker Desktop isn’t even free: you need an enterprise license . Perfectly fair, but not always feasible — and that’s when the quest begins: “I want Docker, but I don’t want another giant thing running in the background all day.”

WSL: how to get Linux inside Windows without too much drama

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There are two types of Windows developers: those who’ve already screamed “why does this work differently on my laptop than on the Linux server?”… and those who don’t know it yet, but they’ll get there.

Windows as a desktop OS is reasonably comfortable: drivers that half-install themselves, games that work (until they crash), Office (sorry, they call it Copitot 365 now), and the resource-devouring horror that is Teams.

As a serious development environment for modern stuff (Docker, Linux tooling, weird scripts, DevOps)… it’s like trying to do surgery with a butter knife. Technically possible, but you will be cursing up a storm.

Your first steps in Linux (when you come from Windows and don't want to run away screaming)

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Your first encounter with Linux, coming from Windows, usually goes something like this:

black screen, white text, a blinking cursor, and your brain screaming “where do I right-click?”.

You’ve been told “the terminal is powerful,” but all you see is a place where you don’t even know which folder you’re in.

The good news is that, underneath all the mystique, Linux (specifically Ubuntu) isn’t that different from what you already know. There’s a file system with folders, processes you can view and kill, a “Control Panel” disguised as commands, and a kind of “App Store” for installing things (only here they’re called repositories and they use apt).