Linux @lemmy.ml mr_MADAFAKA @lemmy.ml 10 mo. ago

Docker team is considering distributing Docker Desktop as a Flatpak and Snap

github.com [Docker Desktop] Add installer to Flathub and Snap Store for Linux · Issue #593 · docker/roadmap

Tell us about your request I would like to see Docker Desktop for Linux available as a flatpak app that is distributed on flathub.org. Apps that offer flatpaks include: podman, VS Code, pycharm, su...

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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?
- Apparently it lets you set up Kubernetes pretty easily too? idk I don't use Kubernetes.
  
  Minikube is excellent for that already.
- 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
  
  Docker desktop is a GUI frontend for docker
  
  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.
  
  lol some myth you apparently use it for since it does not look like a bit of things are properly understood here ;)
  
  @superbirra try again?
  
  thanks but I'm fine, I don't see much value in explaining anything to you :)

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