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Post by mook » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 3:42 AM UTC

forrestthewoods wrote: post #110

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It's often literally not possible to ship everything. You wouldn't want to spin up a second X11 (or Wayland) server, for example, because you can't have two of them talk to the same video card device at the same time usefully.

The number of things that can't be shipped is extremely small. And I don't think that Docker is a silver bullet for Wayland vs X11 issues? Although I'm not sure about the fine details as I don't have a ton of experience there. Shouldn't you be using an abstraction that can automatically support which ever is available? I tend to ship code that needs to run on Linux + macOS + Windows + Android. So Docker is a total no…

Post by tomjen3 » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:06 AM UTC

sverhagen wrote: post #115

istoica wrote: post #45

Kubernetes is planned - my devops wants me to add it badly! Author note - Most of you guys here are power users, for whom UI is a visual poem that you need or not. This is not a commercial project, it is not following any business goals. But this does not mean concessions to quality, it does try to offer minimal resource usage everywhere, easy experience, good UI/UX. It explains all it does behind the scenes if you e…

I don't live my life entirely on the command line either, but GUIs for Docker are just an interesting niche to me, for which I just don't understand what the ven diagram is between people that want Docker containers running locally, know that that's what they want, and know how it all works, but then don't want to do the small handful of commands at the prompt needed to get it running...

Post by brianpan » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:15 AM UTC

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Does it use the same "containers are really just running in a Linux VM" approach as Docker Desktop on macOS?

unless you run osx on a Linux kernel, it will always be so. not a personal attack on you, but it blows my mind how clueless the current generation of developers become after the docker phase.

Post by otteromkram » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:52 AM UTC

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One big difference is the licensing. Docker Engine itself is apache licensed (and hence free to use at a company of any scale), but Docker Desktop requires a paid plan if your company has more than 250 employees or more than $10 million in annual revenue [0]. [0]: https://docs.docker.com/engine/#licensing

Which like, seems entirely fair, but when there are suitable enough replacements that cost $0, why pay for it? Sure there are big picture reasons, but companies often don't think that long-term.

Post by ihateolives » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:22 AM UTC

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I don't necessarily want docker containers running locally as some hobbyist, they might be just part of the process, and if the gui helps me move through that process efficiently without having to add more commands to my memory, I'm happy about that. CLIs are great, but when nearly everything has one, those small amount of commands become quite a lot in aggregate.

there are ways to minimize memorization, most important: 1. keep log, docs, records of whatever you are doing. most commands are repetitive. 2. copilot or chatgpt, they help a lot with command lines and simple utilities 3. amazon Q sucks in comparison. 4. it used to be google, but now LLMs do it better. less scrolling and ads/spam.