Yeah, that's my point. On Linux you are going to run docker in VM anyway if you care a bit about security, but I know that almost all devs run docker directly

Yeah, that's my point. On Linux you are going to run docker in VM anyway if you care a bit about security, but I know that almost all devs run docker directly on their laptops and with the user's full access to docker - ie. their user effectively becomes user. Without second thought ...