[davegardner]

I've been using Docker on Windows for well over 2 years. It was certainly difficult setting it up on Windows in the old Docker Toolbox days (circa 2016), so perhaps the authors experience is from then.

Since the Docker for Windows client was released I've had no problems at all. (In the interest of full disclosure there were a couple of early beta issues that were quickly fixed, however that's to be expected).

[sundvor]

Ah, cheers, so it was probably that - running "Docker Toolbox" in Virtualbox was not a very good experience indeed (the mappings were a royal pain), but since this was a 2018 article I assumed we'd all be talking about Docker for Windows. Author lost me with that, then.

It's been very smooth for me as well, especially after figuring out how to do write docker compose files. Which is arguably not hard at all, once you get used to them. :)