There are many decent alternatives for MacOS too. I had good luck with minikube a few years ago. This article seems decent, based on my previous research:
Yeah I'm on a Mac. Uh, you know I really had a memory of homebrew getting things out of the .app or something, but I really can't find any evidence that was ever the case. I blame sleep deprivation, this is like the 13th blunder I've made this week haha.
https://dev.to/shohams/5-alternatives-to-docker-desktop-46am
I don’t use windows, put presumably you can just use their built in linux environment and docker cli.