[throwaway240403]

The parent's complaint about non-native docker is not solved by colima. It's not bloat from the desktop app it's the fact that you have to run a VM to run any sort of container runtime on a mac.

[LTL_FTC]

This is no longer the case with macOS 26.

Edit: each container still gets its own vm but the container runtime is now native.

https://github.com/apple/container

[saagarjha]

"The container runtime is now native" is a meaningless phrase. The containers are VMs and they will always be VMs.