[FEAT] Run as WSL distribution

[ericfrederich]

Is this a new feature request?

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Wanted change

While this image works fine when ran as a Docker container within a WSL distribution, I'd like to be able to run this image as a WSL distribution itself.

For the most part you can docker export most Docker containers and wsl --import them and they work.

That does not work with this image because it relies on s6 init and WSL replaces /init with it's own WSL init system. WSL is also compatible with systemd. Either way, they're not playing nice with s6.

Reason for change

It would remove another unneeded layer of abstraction if you're using Docker through WSL anyway.
With this extra layer when I open a Windows Terminal tab to a WSL distro where rdesktop is running I'd have to docker exec -it my-rdesktop-container /bin/bash, then su - abc to get a terminal session inside the rdesktop environment.

Would be super useful if these services were running natively inside WSL2.

Proposed code change

It'd be great to be able to download ready-to-use images for WSL, but I'd also be happy with a one-time setup-for-wsl.sh script that would set things up to be ran with systemd.

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[aptalca]

As you've discovered, our supervisor, s6, requires running as pid 1 and as a result, our images are not compatible with systems that hijack init.

We don't have any plans to change that.

Even if s6 worked, we likely would not be interested in supporting ready-to-use images for WSL. Our images are already pretty much ready to use as long as you have docker or a compatible runtime with a docker run or compose yaml.

[j0nnymoe]

Also worth noting, we are also dropping the rdesktop containers https://info.linuxserver.io/issues/2025-08-23-rdesktop/