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Nothing mentioned here is actually an alternative for Docker Desktop. The article is very k8s focused, which is really just a feature that was added to Docker Desktop.

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Minikube was initially based on docker-machine. It’s the closest alternative to having just Docker on macOS or Windows

You can't just have Docker on macOS or Windows though. There has to be an underlying VM, which Docker Desktop hides the details of.

Could you explain what Minikube brings, if you don't need Kubernetes, beyond setting up up docker-machine and virtualbox with something like this? https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/373888/how-do-i-st...

I'd love a maintained, packaged solution, but it looks to me that I still have some configuration to do with minikube to set up a virutalization driver etc..?

Agreed. I want a .app file for macOS that does everything Docker Desktop does, without the bloat.

> Agreed. I want a .app file for macOS that does everything Docker Desktop does, without the bloat.

Everything Docker Desktop does, without the bloat of the Desktop app ;)

I think that, in this case, "without the bloat" is not a very meaningful ask.

Most of the size of the app bundle is the image for the virtual machine it uses to host Docker. By comparison, the GUI bits are quite small.

Apps on Mac OS X are bundles, they're actually folders. This is something from the NeXTSTEP era that still persists in Mac OS X.

update:

"To everyone in the NeXTSTEP community (and it is a community) but also to @mattl I apologize for saying Mac OS X apps are files not folders."

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