You Don't Need Docker Desktop on Linux (opens in new tab)

Docker Desktop was using 4GB of RAM on my machine. Sitting there. Doing nothing. No containers running. Just the daemon. I don't know about you, but 4 gigs for a container runtime that isn't running any containers is a hard no from me. I'm on Fedora, but this applies to Ubuntu, Debian, whatever. If you're running Linux, you don't need Docker Desktop. So I started looking at what I actually needed. Turns out: not much. What Docker Desktop actually is Docker Desktop is a GUI wrapper around a VM...