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I ditched Docker for Podman

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1101 points codesmash | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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delduca ◴[05 Sep 25 12:21 UTC] No.45137681[source]▶
I have ditched docker desktop on macOS for OrbStack.
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chrisweekly ◴[05 Sep 25 12:29 UTC] No.45137741[source]▶
OrbStack looks pretty nice, BUT an $8/mo/user subscription? Blech.
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bzzzt ◴[05 Sep 25 12:52 UTC] No.45137938[source]▶
It doesn't only look prettier, it also starts and works a lot faster. Switched a few years ago; at that time Docker desktop has a known issue of continually using 5% CPU on Mac which they didn't fix for years.
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osigurdson ◴[05 Sep 25 13:34 UTC] No.45138377[source]▶
I don't understand why people need a gui for docker/podman.
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grep_name ◴[05 Sep 25 17:23 UTC] No.45141080[source]▶
I use orbstack, but I never look at it, it just opens when I start up the computer. I used to use docker desktop, which I never looked at either. The docker daemon has always just been broken on Mac for as long as I've been trying to work with it (about 4 years, at least as far as Mac environments).

Idk what the problem is, but it's ugly. I switched to orbstack because there was something like a memory leak happening with docker desktop, just using waaaaay too many resources all the time, sometimes it would just crash. I just started using docker desktop from the get-go because when I came on I had multiple people with more experience say 'oh, you're coming from linux? Don't even try to use the docker daemon, just download docker desktop'.

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1. osigurdson ◴[05 Sep 25 18:10 UTC] No.45141688[source]▶
On Windows, the easiest thing is to just use podman without podman desktop. It installs easily as a winget package and works in your current shell without having to first start WSL (it does that behind the scenes).

On Linux, for development, podman and docker are pretty similar but I prefer the k8s yaml approach vs compose so tend to use podman.

I don't think Apple really cares about dev use cases anymore so I haven't used a Mac for development in a while (I would for iOS development of course if that ever came up).