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by deathanatos 13 days ago
Well, you can avoid the Docker Desktop tax by not running Docker Desktop. colima is a perfectly usable implementation of Docker for macOS, without the bloat of Docker Desktop.

That said, colima still has the expensive VM that upthread is mentioning.

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OrbStack is great also
I agree, it’s so much better than Docker Desktop, Podman, and Colima. And not just by a small margin, it feels several orders of magnitude faster and more lightweight thanks to its WSL2-like architecture.
until they remove the free tier and raise prices, once their user base is sufficiently reliant on it.
I had no idea they have a free tier. I've been paying for a couple of years and it's been so worth it.
Postman Desktop too
You mean Podman Desktop?
Yes, thank you iOS autocorrect.