diff --git a/emmathorpe/user.nix b/emmathorpe/user.nix
index 42e5db4..3776b37 100644
--- a/emmathorpe/user.nix
+++ b/emmathorpe/user.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 		isNormalUser = true;
 		home = "/home/emmathorpe";
 		description = "Emma Thorpe";
-		extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];
+		extraGroups = [ "wheel" "docker" ];
 		shell = pkgs.zsh;
 		packages =  lib.mkIf (config.features.swayDesktop.enable == true) [
 			pkgs.legcord
diff --git a/system/machine/EDaaS/configuration.nix b/system/machine/EDaaS/configuration.nix
index 994b2fd..089de17 100644
--- a/system/machine/EDaaS/configuration.nix
+++ b/system/machine/EDaaS/configuration.nix
@@ -13,10 +13,42 @@
     <nixos-wsl/modules>
   ];
 
-  wsl.enable = true;
-  wsl.defaultUser = "emmathorpe";
+
+  wsl = {
+    enable = true;
+    defaultUser = "emmathorpe";
+    wslConf.automount.root = "/mnt";
+    wslConf.interop.appendWindowsPath = false;
+    wslConf.network.generateHosts = false;
+    startMenuLaunchers = true;
+    docker-desktop.enable = false;
+        extraBin = with pkgs; [
+      # Binaries for Docker Desktop wsl-distro-proxy
+      { src = "${coreutils}/bin/mkdir"; }
+      { src = "${coreutils}/bin/cat"; }
+      { src = "${coreutils}/bin/whoami"; }
+      { src = "${coreutils}/bin/ls"; }
+      { src = "${busybox}/bin/addgroup"; }
+      { src = "${su}/bin/groupadd"; }
+      { src = "${su}/bin/usermod"; }
+    ];
+  };
+  
+  virtualisation.docker = {
+    enable = true;
+    enableOnBoot = true;
+    autoPrune.enable = true;
+  };
+
+  networking.resolvconf.enable = false;
+
+  ## patch the script 
+  systemd.services.docker-desktop-proxy.script = lib.mkForce ''${config.wsl.wslConf.automount.root}/wsl/docker-desktop/docker-desktop-user-distro proxy --docker-desktop-root ${config.wsl.wslConf.automount.root}/wsl/docker-desktop "C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources"'';
+
   nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
   features.swayDesktop.enable = false;
+  nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
+  programs.nix-ld.enable = true;
   # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
   # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
   # on your system were taken. It's perfectly fine and recommended to leave