I wonder if it’s time to try this again. Last time I tried it, it was intensely buggy, not to mention almost every feature I wanted.

The concept is great, and I would love to ditch OrbStack for it. (OrbStack is slick. But their everything-shares-one-kernel-and-they-don’t-give-privileged-access model falls apart as soon as you try to do anything that doesn’t fit in their not-amazing sandbox. Even user namespaces don’t appear to work.) But, other than the actual core mostly working, Apple Containers was a buggy mess, and it was the only thing that made me frequently reboot the whole machine.

I certainly haven’t done anything outside of general happy path but i swapped out docker for it and it “just worked” - and i got more battery life

Maybe we can go back to a world where we decouple new under-the-hood features from complete UI fuckery.

You shouldn't have to cope with one to get the other.