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You guys (by you guys I mean you and Docker, Inc) would do yourselves a huge favor not spiting the Linux devs who invented the technologies you build your tools on.

Where's the Linux version? Give it to me in Snap, AppImage, Flatpak, deb, or rpm, whatever you want. Just offer something. We'll take care of the rest.

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The whole reason this (and Docker Desktop) are used is that Docker and K8s does not run natively on macOS and Windows.

If you’re using Linux already, most of this stuff is as useful as nipples on a breastplate. You could theoretically run an emptied out husk of the app on Linux, but there are much better tools for working with the tools directly.

So I’d be greatly surprised if any Linux kernel hackers are miffed about this.

I'm not sure the whole reason for Docker Desktop is that Docker and K8s don't run natively. I mean, someone could create a Linux VM and get them running right through there. The tools exist to do this.

There are even programs like minikube that can get you Kubernetes in a VM on Mac.

There is something else to it that people want and that translates to Linux, I've learned. They want an easy button with an easy UX. There are a lot of people who are like that.

Right and when you're a corporation it cannot be overstated how important it is to coalesce around universal solutions that get up and out of the way with as few steps as possible. Handing new developers a handbook of incantations to get going is very fragile. Handing those same developers one executable with a big Go! button is much easier to get right.

One example from my last job was having one shell.nix in the root of every project folder a developer could nix shell into that contained everything they needed, same version and all, to get going with that project.

When you are a <10 person small development agency where juniors come to work it is critical. The subject of https://rietta.com/blog/dockerized-cost-savings/. Paying over and over again for new devs to "get set up" was devastating the budget.

Thanks for the feedback. A Linux version is in the roadmap for this fall. I've had several discussions on it in the past week.

Part of this was due to priorities and part of it was technicalities. For example, do we put it in a VM so that way someone can easily blow things away and we don't touch the base system? We had to come to some direction on what we wanted to do there. Now that we have that idea we need to finish up one thing on Mac that will translate over to Linux.

The Linux side will be based on Lima[1] just as the Mac side is.

Earlier today I had a discussion on the packaging format.

[1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

Thanks for the update! It's refreshing to see more turnkey GUI competitors in this space coming from larger corporate names.

I installed this and could not get networking going again in WSL 2 until I uninstalled it. I was sad.

It’s open source, you could probably port it yourself.

I somewhat agree with your viewpoint, but given Windows 10 is generally just Windows 10 , OSX is OSX… But Linux could be anything from Redhat to Alpine to a raspberry pi , I understand why devs wouldn’t support it

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