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A Quick Way to Install WSL2 (Ubuntu) and Docker Desktop on Windows 11

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:13:54 +0900

This is a note from installing WSL and Docker Desktop in a Windows 11 Pro environment.

Overview

When using Docker containers on Windows, I use Docker Desktop.
For paid licensing and various other reasons, it seems people are moving away from Docker, but it is still easy and convenient when you want to verify something quickly.

On Windows 10, setting up WSL took a bit of work, but recent Windows 11 versions seem to install it quickly, so I wanted to try it.

[Emacs] After Trying Mew in Emacs 27 on Windows 10, I Wanted to Display X-Face Too

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 02:06:38 +0900

This drifted a little off track, but while I was migrating my home mail server, I also configured Emacs so I could read and write email there.

Test Environment

Windows 10 Pro version 20H2 (OS build 19042.868)
64-bit GNU Emacs 27.1 official build
"GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2020-08-22"
Mew 6.8 Windows

Overview

I use Mew as the mailer in Emacs. I have not used anything else. I think there was also something called Wanderlust. These days, I almost never read or write email in Emacs anymore. Still, back when email was the main communication tool, being able to write email in Emacs felt deeply impressive.

[Emacs] Try Configuring Fonts in Emacs 27 on Windows 10

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:13:52 +0900

When using Emacs, it feels wrong if the fonts are not configured.

I do not really understand the proper way to configure them, but I searched around and tried settings that suit me reasonably well.

Test Environment

Windows 10 Pro version 20H2 (OS build 19042.746)
64-bit GNU Emacs 27.1 official build
"GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2020-08-22"

Overview

The default state is hard to read, so I will start by configuring only the basic fonts. That said, I personally do not understand Emacs font configuration very well.

[Emacs] Use Emacs 27 on Windows 10

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:06:24 +0900

To use Emacs on Windows, GNU's official build was effectively hard to use, and comfortable Japanese input required a community build with the IME patch. I am truly grateful for those builds up to now.
This time, W32-IME became easy to use even with the official build, so I tried it.

Test Environment

Windows 10 Pro version 20H2 (OS build 19042.746)
64-bit GNU Emacs 27.1 official build
"GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2020-08-22"