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I tried to search some web page and found they teach you have to install windows docker desktop.
I confuse about it , because MS said WSL2 is based on Linux Core so it should not need windows desktop theoretically.

Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend | Docker Documentation said it need docker desktop but i can install and build docker in WSL2 with this script and there's no windows docker desktop.

$ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
$ sudo sh get-docker.sh
$ sudo service docker start
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Docker Desktop provides out-of-the-box integration with Windows like the docker CLI and folder mappings.

You do not need Docker Desktop if you don’t want these. You’re not looking at the Docker engine documentation but at the Docker Desktop documentation. WSL 2 is just Linux, so you can install any Linux software (that doesn’t have special hardware or exotic kernel feature requirements).

You can also set up the docker CLI manually, if desired, using DOCKER_HOST… environment variables.

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