[anpep]

Ever since I discovered OrbStack, my M1 has become the perfect laptop for me. OrbStack has great UX, massive FS performance, Docker & Kubernetes support, and a bunch of really clever people behind it. Everyone doing linux development on a Mac should try it

[eddyg]

What are the real-world benefits over Colima?⁽¹⁾ (Besides having a GUI, which I can do without.)

I'm interested in an up-to-date comparison when running the VM with Rosetta 2:

    colima start --vm-type=vz --vz-rosetta

⁽¹⁾ https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

Edit to add: While researching OrbStack, I found this comment in a post from 7 months ago that mirrors a lot about my experience with Colima: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41424044

[rcarmo]

I use Colima as well. Haven’t found anything that works better, TBH.

[corv]

It's really good but the fs caching has bit me a couple times before I realized what was going on.

[oulipo]

Can you tell more about this?

[oulipo]

Orbstack is great! I'm wondering why there is not an open-source equivalent? Did they have to reimplement a lot of the native calls to make it work fast enough?

[asadalt]

oh wow. i hadn’t hesrd if orbstack. i am sick of docker issues on my og m1.