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OrbStack is shockingly good. We have tools that are deeply integrated with Docker Desktop and the CLI and it all worked perfectly out of the box when I switched to OrbStack. It also takes like seconds to start and has yet to overheat my laptop or drain my battery.

Highly recommended: https://orbstack.dev/

TIL Docker Desktop is a battery drain / resource hog. I’ll give this a try.

+1 for Orbstack, shockingly good.

Orb Stack looks neat but I don't think it provides that capabilities that Mutagen does? It seems like the two would be compatible with one another.

Why do we need GUIs? I find Docker CLI shockingly easy to use.

I use the CLI as well, but on MacOS, you need more plumbing like a Linux VM. OrbStack (and Docker Desktop) provide this plumbing in a single app package, so the CLI can actually work, whether you prefer a GUI or a CLI. (Or docker-compose, as I use most often.)