[zenlikethat]

Not that I disagree about something being deeply wrong, but VM's your only option. Docker is more or less hardcoded to Linux, so you need a Linux kernel somewhere. Docker Desktop just runs a light one for you that you don't worry about managing much.

[vbezhenar]

Docker is not hardcoded to Linux. There're Windows-native containers. That said, I agree that most useful images out there are built for Linux and having thousands of existing images is what makes docker useful at all.