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Re:Docker Desktop Alternative by swyx on Friday September 20, 2024 @03:43PM (#41604972)
colima is also good https://www.swyx.io/running-docker-without-docker-desktop

also no affiliation and have not tried orbstack

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Re:Docker Desktop Alternative by comprev on Friday September 20, 2024 @03:57PM (#41605070)
Colima has been great to support x86 images on Apple Silicon like OracleDB 19, instead of building arm64 images.

The flexibility of container runtimes and host architecture (via QEMU) has proven useful.

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Re:Docker Desktop Alternative by lanstin on Friday September 20, 2024 @06:20PM (#41606014)
Yeah, I use this to support extremely old C++ project on x86_64 docker images and it's tolerable if not speedy.
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Re:Docker Desktop Alternative by istoica on Friday September 20, 2024 @05:50PM (#41605817)
Colima offers the best experience for docker alternative. LIMA offers the equivalent of WSL, where both docker and podman are supported. I like LIMA a lot as I deal with both, but COLIMA rocks for simplicity. I think COLIMA + Container Desktop are perfect replacement on mac for traditional Docker Desktop users.
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