From my experience of using microk8s for mostly offline development and trying minikube once:

Microk8s pros:

- bind-mount support => it is possible to mount a project including its node_modules and work on it from the host while it hot-reloads in the pod.

- The addons for dns, registry, istio, and metallb just work.

- Feels more snappy than minikube.

Microk8s cons:

- Distributed exclusively via snap => can't be easily installed on nix/nixos.