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colima is also good https://www.swyx.io/running-docker-without-docker-desktop

also no affiliation and have not tried orbstack

Colima offers the best experience for docker alternative. LIMA offers the equivalent of WSL, where both docker and podman are supported. I like LIMA a lot as I deal with both, but COLIMA rocks for simplicity. I think COLIMA + Container Desktop are perfect replacement on mac for traditional Docker Desktop users.

Colima has been great to support x86 images on Apple Silicon like OracleDB 19, instead of building arm64 images.

The flexibility of container runtimes and host architecture (via QEMU) has proven useful.

Yeah, I use this to support extremely old C++ project on x86_64 docker images and it's tolerable if not speedy.

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