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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

To maintain the purity of the real system, Docker should be installed in Snap, Snap should be installed in Flatpak, and Flatpak should be installed in Docker.

[–] Frederic 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

and to be sure, install all this on a VM image that you'll run in QEMU

[–] Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In a VM installed via flatpak

[–] Frederic 4 points 10 months ago

And all this because Docker needed libschmu.1.2.3.2 and unfortunately you have only libschmu.1.2.3.1

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Using ansible and opentofu from an LXC on your Proxmox host

[–] java 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You forgot about a VMWare layer!

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Is that a joke I am too QEMU/KVM to understand?

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What exactly is the appeal of Docker Desktop on Linux? I can run docker just fine without it, so what's it doing for me?

[–] yianiris@kafeneio.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would suspect that making a stable desktop inside docker ensures it would work everywhere else, no matter what the hw/sw of the host is.
I've only known docker as a building environment that ensures rebuildability and I can't say I ever liked it. I think its popularity comes from some myth of safety and security.

@danielquinn @mr_MADAFAKA

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Docker desktop is a GUI frontend for docker

[–] taanegl 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is it. It's for your late sipping Starbucks developer, who needs buttons to click... those luscious, UX'y buttons... I WANNA CLICK THEM!

Okay, so I'm the target demographic. Guilty. Although nowadays I use nspawn, like the maniac I am.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently it lets you set up Kubernetes pretty easily too? idk I don't use Kubernetes.

[–] sekhat@lemmy.temporus.me 1 points 10 months ago

Minikube is excellent for that already.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago

At first I read only docker without the context of the Docker Desktop client.

Making docker a one-click installation on all distros is great, altough I wouldn't use it myself.

If they actually make a flatpak I wonder whether they'll only support rootless docker or if it'll ask for elevated permissions through polkit.

[–] brejela@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

I couldn't possibly care less about Docker Desktop. Portainer is a much better solution when graphical administration becomes necessary. (Which should be never)

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

lol no podman

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

I personally found Portainer more useful as it doesn’t require a VM unlike Docker desktop.