Clarify ECI WSL version requirement#24976
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The ECI overview and limitations pages listed different WSL version requirements without explaining the distinction. Updated the limitations note to distinguish Docker Desktop's WSL baseline from the stricter ECI-on-WSL requirement. Co-Authored-By: Codex <noreply@openai.com> om> oreply@openai.com>
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| > Docker Desktop requires WSL 2 version 2.1.5 or later. Check your version with `wsl --version` and update with `wsl --update` if needed. | ||
| > Docker Desktop requires WSL 2 version 2.1.5 or later. ECI on the WSL 2 backend | ||
| > requires WSL version 2.6 or later because ECI depends on a Linux kernel version | ||
| > of at least 6.3.0. Check your version with `wsl --version` and update with | ||
| > `wsl --update` if needed. |
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Perhaps we should simplify this to only mention the requirements for ECI
(we should also look if versions older than 2.6 are still seen; IIUC, the default is to auto-update these, so maybe it's not very relevant at all anymore)
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Summary
The ECI overview and limitations pages listed different WSL version requirements without explaining the distinction. This clarifies that Docker Desktop requires WSL 2.1.5 or later, while ECI on WSL requires WSL 2.6 or later.
Closes #24956
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