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Docker Desktop is really good, at least on Windows (I don't have any macOS experience to comment on it there). I've been using DD on Windows since it was availa
by nickjj 6y ago
Docker Desktop is really good, at least on Windows (I don't have any macOS experience to comment on it there). I've been using DD on Windows since it was available and use it for full time development.
On Windows Docker Desktop is really fast, rarely crashes (once every couple of months I'll encounter something strange and restarting it always fixes it), it works seamlessly with WSL 2 and it seems to install and run without issues on a huge array of hardware / software combos. The last one is important and I'm making this claim based on the lack of support questions I get on my Dive into Docker course around installing Docker. Prior to Docker Desktop there were so many reports with Docker Toolbox around installation issues / errors, but now I get almost none related to installation and this is with a pretty big sample size too.
It's also a quick way to get a 1 node Kubernetes cluster running on your dev box which works perfectly out of the box, even exposing your services over localhost. Minikube and other solutions still require manual steps to get this behavior and personally I've found there to be a number of installation issues that aren't present with Docker Desktop, all of which were fixable but still required manual intervention to fix.