How are you using the Codex app on Windows?
OpenAI Developer Community
March 16, 2026
I just tried to use the native Codex app for Windows myself, and the result in this usecase was no good. This project I’m working on uses devcontainers and the devcontainers are Linux dependent. Ok, usually that’s no problem, I clone the project on wsl and work in there with vscode or jetbrains IDEs. But now I would need to open the project in the Codex app but it just freezes when trying to open a folder inside wsl.
My takeaway is that it’s not possible to use the Codex app if you need your project to live on WSL. If I’m wrong, I would be happy to learn the workaround, thanks.
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