Cendyne: Sorta. There is an "image" with an app, config inside, and a way to launch it. The image has an isolated file system and any changes disappear when it turns off. Made for servers instead of desktop applications. Need a newer version of MySQL than the Ubuntu repo? There's a docker repo for it.

It's honestly shocking how much better OrbStack is vs the official Docker Desktop client

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I still don’t understand what the fuck Docker is, and every time someone tries to explain it to me, I just get even more confused.

Avoiding dependency conflicts as a service

Oh so it’s like appimages?

Sorta. There is an "image" with an app, config inside, and a way to launch it. The image has an isolated file system and any changes disappear when it turns off. Made for servers instead of desktop applications. Need a newer version of MySQL than the Ubuntu repo? There's a docker repo for it.

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