I've tried Docker Desktop, Rancher, Colima, all with various settings (including the disk ones), and it's always very, very slow for me (M1 Macbook Pro 16). This is when developing with both a .NET 7 stack and a Node stack.

I tried creating a VM and pointing my DOCKER_HOST to that, but it's still slow. The main problem is that I'm trying to work with AMD64 on an ARM64 (due to my constraints).

I'm going to set up an old non-M1 box in my office and use that as my Docker host. I am also tempted to use a cheap remote instance for when I'm OOO.