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OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by commandersaki »

OrbStack is by far some of the best software I've encountered on Mac, but unfortunately I have difficulty convincing my employer to pay for a commercial license, and with my sparse Docker usage, I'm confined to using it only for personal/hobby usage.

What's amazing is it fixes an (almost) show stopper bug when using libuv (or software that uses it like CMake) with Rosetta 2 [1], with the bug present on all Docker/VMs I've tried except OrbStack. It just seems to get everything right.

[1]: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/4279

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by renewiltord »

Orbstack is great. I use it in order to build a library cross-platform (Linux/Mac amd64/aarch64 all combinations) and it's great how I can do it on my Mac. You can even run a quick shell in a VM that has all your stuff mounted. Perfect user experience.

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by knallfrosch »

saagarjha wrote: post #14
withinboredom wrote: post #7

I love how there is absolutely no mention that it is mac-only (or even what versions of mac are supported), even on the download page.

Which other platform would you expect it to be for?

Asked the other way around, why would anyone think a Docker container runner would be tied to MacOS?

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by selcuka »

webprofusion wrote: post #35

Err, you guys know that about 80% of desktops are Windows right? There's a bit of a myth that developers are all using macOS but in practice that's not really the case.

I can't see how 80% of desktops being Windows is proof that most developers use macOS is a myth. Developers probably represent much less than 20% of all desktops, so it's a moot point.

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by saagarjha »

knallfrosch wrote: post #34
saagarjha wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which other platform would you expect it to be for?

Asked the other way around, why would anyone think a Docker container runner would be tied to MacOS?

Because Windows users are unlikely to care about Docker and Linux people don’t pay for stuff

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by withinboredom »

saagarjha wrote: post #37
knallfrosch wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asked the other way around, why would anyone think a Docker container runner would be tied to MacOS?

Because Windows users are unlikely to care about Docker and Linux people don’t pay for stuff

I work on Windows, but mostly just use it for windowing. Almost all my work is done in WSL2 and Docker. The only things running natively are my IDE, my web browser, and slack.

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by dwattttt »

novolunt wrote: post #13

The problem with wsl2 is that it not only requires a virtual machine, but also uses the windows kernel, not the linux kernel

WSL2 doesn't run under the Windows kernel, it runs the Linux kernel under the Windows hypervisor, side-by-side with the Windows kernel (in another lightweight VM). Honestly it's kinda crazy that Windows natively now runs as a VM.

Re: OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux

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Post by oarmstrong »

marvin-hansen wrote: post #30

I switched to Orbstack about 2 weeks ago after having read about it here on HN. I develop a cloud native system entirely writen in Rust. All my own containers are build without Docker thanks to rules oci in Bazel. However, for integration testing, I'm using internal tools that fire up, say a database container and run the tests all from within Bazel to leverage test caching and parallelization. For a while, i was str…

> My CI server uses Firecracker VM's to isolate OCI containers

Is this something you built yourself? I've been looking for a CI tool that uses Firecracker but never found anything, I started building something myself but it never really got finished. Would love to drop that project and use something off the shelf.

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