Discourse on WSL attempting to use /var/lib/docker instead of connecting to Docker Desktop on host

[NateDhaliwal]

Try the WSL method. I use it often with no problems. What errors do you encounter?

Follow this guide for Windows dev setup:

Install Discourse on Windows for development

This tutorial has been tested on Windows 10 and 11. To set up a development environment for Discourse on Windows, you can do it using Windows Subsystem for Linux feature. This setup requires the WSL 2 installation. It is only available in Windows 10 builds 18917 or higher. We’ll assume that you already installed Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (Ubuntu) on your Windows 10 system. WARNING: Install Ubuntu 18.04, and not 20.04 since some installations will fail on 20.04. For m…