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Its called colima and its excellent.

and they have a first-party one now as well

I haven't tried it. colima also simplifies linux VMs which is more of an analog to WSL2 than just running containers. It has really nice integration with Incus as well, if you like persistent system containers.

I also use colima mostly, it‘s great! (the Apple container thing de facto requires macos 26+)

> colima also simplifies linux VMs

lima does, not colima (well it does because it's lima under the hood)

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

You missed the point by focusing on the wrong part (containers) instead of the part that's relevant (kill darwin CLI userland).

Imagine the only scriptability you get for the OS is Automator or Shortcuts, https://github.com/apple/container is at best an API at worst a GUI app and certainly not a CLI, and that's it. macOS is MacOS (pre-X). Or iOS-like. Terminal.app spawns a sandboxed Linux microvm. You never see the host from a shell. Dear colima can't even _exist_.

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