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What exactly is the appeal of Docker Desktop on Linux? I can run docker just fine without it, so what's it doing for me?
Apparently it lets you set up Kubernetes pretty easily too? idk I don't use Kubernetes.
Minikube is excellent for that already.
I would suspect that making a stable desktop inside docker ensures it would work everywhere else, no matter what the hw/sw of the host is.
I've only known docker as a building environment that ensures rebuildability and I can't say I ever liked it. I think its popularity comes from some myth of safety and security.
@danielquinn @mr_MADAFAKA
Docker desktop is a GUI frontend for docker
This is it. It's for your late sipping Starbucks developer, who needs buttons to click... those luscious, UX'y buttons... I WANNA CLICK THEM!
Okay, so I'm the target demographic. Guilty. Although nowadays I use nspawn, like the maniac I am.
lol some myth you apparently use it for since it does not look like a bit of things are properly understood here ;)
@superbirra try again?
thanks but I'm fine, I don't see much value in explaining anything to you :)