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Clarify ECI WSL version requirement #24976

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Expand Up @@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ Enhanced Container Isolation has some platform-specific limitations and feature

> [!NOTE]
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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)


Enhanced Container Isolation provides different security levels depending on your Windows backend configuration.

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