I currently maintain two development environments: one Linux and one Windows 11 . On Linux, this kind of problem is much less frequent for me. On Windows 11, however, Docker Desktop + WSL2 occasionally ends up in a strange state: Docker gets stuck on Loading , docker-desktop shows up as Installing , the daemon doesn't respond, or WSL is left with stuck processes/services. After going through this a few times, I ended up keeping a saved PowerShell script to perform a more aggressiv...