[Spivak]

I mean maybe but if you run your containers not via a GUI you get most of that for free or at worst with a docker logs or docker exec command.

Do people learn docker not via the CLI?

[lenerdenator]

They do, then they realize that it's not the core component of their jobs (unless they're ops) and it is easier to press a "stop" button to kill containers, at least in their use case.

[DanHulton]

I did. Well, I did until I found lazydocker, a TUI that handles the majority of the day-to-day stuff that I need to do that isn't already written into tasks in my justfile: https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker

[queenkjuul]

I for one have been using docker on Linux for years and have to use a Mac at work, and I'm totally baffled by the fact i need to install docker desktop to use the CLI and don't get why you'd need or want the GUI.

And like I'm not all anti-GUI, it's just that docker is one of those things I've never even imagined using a GUI for

[spockz]

You don’t have to install docker desktop. The cli can be installed via homebrew. (Co)Lima, podman, or others, can be used to create a VM running the docker engine.

It’s just that Docker Desktop makes it easy and also provides other integrations like file system sharing etc.

[selcuka]

I mean, it's nice to have a GUI when running multiple containers on Docker, or Kubernetes, but I've never used Docker Desktop on my work Mac either.

For Kubernetes, something like K9s [1] or Headlamp [2] works fine. I remember seeing something similar for Docker but I can't remember the name.

[1] https://k9scli.io/ [2] https://headlamp.dev/