[mrbluecoat]

I also like that Rancher Desktop supports nerdctl. Colima is another similar project.

[amluto]

I imagine that OrbStack has containerd buried inside somewhere and could support ctr and (awkwardly) nerdctl, but if so it’s pretty well hidden.

[chuckadams]

I build containers for multiple platforms using orbstack, and that requires the containerd backend. So yes, it's in there somewhere.

[amluto]

Huh. Are you actually talking to containerd directly or are you just doing something via the docker frontend that requires containerd to function?

[chuckadams]

Presumably it's talking to the docker daemon which itself farms some piece out to containerd? I'm really not sure how the integration works.