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"Free during beta" - wonder what pricing is going to be like out of beta. As far as I can tell, the main reason people started looking for alternatives to Docke

• ehutch79 3y ago
  Personally, I'm looking for alternatives because it's just janky on a Mac. It gets weird and starts hanging on pulls and building because it can't grab metadata. The GUI is also just laggy. (Frustrating when I know electron apps can be fast)
• cedws 3y ago
  For a lot of people, I don't think it's even about the money, it's just that it's a PITA to go through the process of getting it approved.
• kdrag0n 3y ago
  (dev here) Some early thoughts in the expandable section here: https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free https://docs.orbstack.dev/faq#free Definitely want to make sure we get this right, since we know adoption will be highly contingent on pricing and keeping it widely accessible would be great. Let me know if you have any ideas!
• mdeeks 3y ago
  We (Instacart) were looking for alternatives before it started costing money. One of the primary reasons we pivoted and built remote development environments was because of the horrible performance of Docker Desktop. Even when running containers that do nothing I'd find my CPU was high for no reason. Anyone on an Intel Mac would essentially have a loud lap warmer with 2 hour battery life. We are actively looking for alternatives that a) has minimal performance impact on our devs laptops b) is stable (We have most of our devs locked onto a specific version of Docker Desktop because latest was randomly crashing). If the pricing is competitive we will likely be customers when you're out of beta.