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I believe the point of this article was to point out alternatives to Docker Desktop -- that is, Docker solutions that run on Windows and Mac hosts. The point wasn't to highlight alternative k8s distributions.

Author here. Tilt is great.

After minikube I wrote skaffold, which is a closer alternative to docker compose for Kubernetes with file watching and automated rebuilds and syncs.

https://skaffold.dev

There's also Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) which accomplishes the same thing using upstream Kubernetes.

https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/