[jzelinskie]

Looking to convert, but I still can't understand how this is more performant. Docker Desktop has lots of engineering going into performance crossing the host/VM barrier. IIRC lima just pipes over SSH. How could that be faster?

[cosmotic]

Docker is an electron app which might explain some of the performance and battery differences. The containers don't run in electron but that extra copy of chrome is always running in the background.

[russelg]

It's quite trivial to have both installed and you can easily switch between Colima and Docker, I think it's worth testing it out.

[drcongo]

I only use Docker Desktop for one thing - to see if one of my containers has accidentally started itself as amd64 instead of arm64. Sadly Colima doesn't seem to provide a way to do that.