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Thanks for mentioning OrbStack! Happy to answer questions as the dev.

I visited your site and don't understand why OrbStack is a thing. It says it's a replacement for Docker Desktop but how is it better?

The docs have more info: https://docs.orbstack.dev/

And a comparison: https://docs.orbstack.dev/compare/docker-desktop

I think you'll find something you like in there :) To name a few: Performance, CPU usage/power efficiency, automatic domain names for containers, access to volumes and image files from macOS, native app, and more.

It's a few things:

1) Runs containers / VMs ("linux machines"). Here you get a linux instance with access to your complete filesystem (everything is mounted), similar to I guess WSL

2) Full docker compatible + docker-compose

3) As of this week kubernetes support

Everything is blazing fast to start (think 100-200ms). Aside that, there's one thing that's awesome: networking.

Every container gets a unique IP. No more portmapping.

Every containers also gets a unique hostname (+ip) -> testapp.orb.local

Every every docker-compose gets a unique subdomain -> web.testcompose.orb.local

Is running a MacOS VM within scope of what you want to build?

I don't want to say "never" to macOS or Windows VMs, but so far my plan is to focus on Linux and its applications (containers, Kubernetes, etc.).

Hey, I just switched from Linux to MacOS and I wondered how to best set up a work environment on MacOS. I don't really want to use brew as the sandboxing on MacOS seems to be much worse than I expected it to be e.g. as far as I see you can only prevent the access of $HOME/Desktop, $HOME/Documents and $HOME/Downloads. I found out that using Canonical Multipass allows you to easily set up ubuntu VMs and this I think it is a good way to create a working environment for development and of course by using it one can improve the sandboxing as everything is executed inside a vm.

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Now to come to the point your OrbStack seems to be really similar to Canonical Multipass, so I wondered how they do they compare to each other? Why should I prefer to use OrbStack over Canonical Multipass (besides the possibility of being able to run other distributions than ubuntu)?

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