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

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

OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux on macOSorbstack.dev Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs. The fast, light, and easy way to run containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.

why are good and cool projects always macOS only, ugh

Honestly, it’s probably down to better APIs and a userbase willing to spend money tbh

You can try podman-desktop.io Or rancherdesktop.io as an alternative to Docker Desktop / OrbStack

Podman Desktop - Containers and Kubernetes | Podman Desktoppodman-desktop.io Podman Desktop - An open source graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes

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.

Shipping software and having it build and run consistently turned out to be too hard of a problem so we gave up and just ship the software in little isolated layers that each individually operate on their own little somewhat-fake OS They’re like diet VMs I guess

Avoiding dependency conflicts as a service

Oh so it’s like appimages?

It’s also not ‘as a service’ It’s like a lightweight vmware but much better in almost every way.

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.

Example. I have to do quick WordPress (WP) theme dev. I need MySQL, Apache + PHP, WordPress. WP made a Docker container. I d/l and run it, and get a URL of a WP site I can develop. My needs are packaged in this "mini machine" and isolated from the rest of my Mac. OrbStack worked well for this, btw.

i remember trying to load docker desktop on my work mac a few times because there was a way to run our cypress tests in it according to the docs (i think those ended up being super dated), and it would take like 5 minutes just to load the UI entirely, it was wild 😭

also:

this reminds me I need to give it another look — I tried it a few years back and generally liked it, then set it aside when I hit some hurdle or another in the midst of a production push. Maybe it’s time to revisit.

It's matured quite a bit, I don't think I could ever go back just from the battery savings alone tbh

the cli being “orb” makes it 100x better

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