[ekzy]

Honest question, what’s wrong with docker desktop? Looking at all the alternatives suggested it’s not clear to me why any other tools are better? I’m not using k8s locally, just docker compose. To connect to our remote k8s cluster, I use IntelliJ k8s extension (I just need to do some basic dev tasks, I’m not administrating the cluster)

[Andoryuuta]

One big difference is the licensing. Docker Engine itself is apache licensed (and hence free to use at a company of any scale), but Docker Desktop requires a paid plan if your company has more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in annual revenue [0].

[0]: https://docs.docker.com/engine/#licensing

[fragmede]

Which like, seems entirely fair, but when there are suitable enough replacements that cost $0, why pay for it? Sure there are big picture reasons, but companies often don't think that long-term.

[otteromkram]

Priority tech support when everything blows up is usually the number one reason.

[dewey]

I have a hard time thinking of cases where you need support or priority support for developer tooling like Docker. It’s not like Docker Desktop is running in production.

[chuckadams]

“The update failed on 200 desktops.”

“Performance is crap when running BlahBlah Management Suite.”

And so on. You don’t necessarily call support when one dev has an issue, you call when they all do.

[Delk]

Docker Desktop requires a paid licence for companies with over 250 employees. While that's totally fair, it can add red tape if you want to use it in a project.

I'm not completely sure about licensing for Container Desktop but the footer suggests MIT license.

[alx__]

For me, it was consuming so much memory. Switching to OrbStack helped fix that

[bboygravity]

FreeBSD jails? :p

[maxyurk]

it's not free