To clarify a few comments here: this is not only OCI containers: container machines add support for persistence and filesystem mounting, making container machines a great lightweight Linux environment for developers using macOS. More details here: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/389
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#12Would be nice if they also support Intel based macs, what prevents?
Allocation of a finite amount of engineering resources.
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#13With colima I can run AMD64 (x86) Linux containers in my Arm64 too. I think this is strictly for Arm64 Linux VMs, or is there some way to run x86 with this too?
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#14Would be nice if they also support Intel based macs, what prevents?
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#17Will this be able to replace docker desktop an equivalents, removing the expensive Linux VM that runs alongside them?
My first thought as well, docker desktop overhead is pretty bad, would be awesome to see this land natively in DD. By my estimate this could happen, seeing as Docker has historically tried to improve performance but quickly had to accept platform limitations… would only be natural to settle DD over to containers
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Sadly, Linux is much much less secure.