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Discussion on: Do You Need Docker Desktop For Linux?

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alesbe • Edited

Docker desktop made me change permanently to Linux haha, I used Windows my whole life, until I started working with Docker. To run Docker on Windows you need WSL2 and Docker Desktop, I didn't like to open it every time I wanted to run a container or just use powershell because at least for me the experience wasn't the same using WSL, also I found easier to run things like mongoDB and other server environment software directly on Linux instead of windows without using WSL (just a virtual environment of the Ubuntu terminal).

I think that Docker Desktop it's helpful to manage containers in a desktop environment, but once you get used to the terminal, you'll end up using the terminal because it's faster than opening the desktop environment and consume more time and resources, but I think that supporting desktop version for Linux users it's also a great thing, because it can reach more people! 🙌

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Volker Schukai

I can understand that. :-)

i don't know how it is now, but in the past.
docker desktop under windows always had quality problems.
relatively often after an update the daemon was no longer accessible.