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I recently left the Mac ecosystem and bought myself a System 76 laptop. I do a lot of server-side development and running Docker at native speed is a big productivity boost for me. I really do hope they get this sorted out, it's a great technology that has measurably improved the local development experience.
I wonder if services like https://garden.io/ will see more business as a result of these issues? That or more folks will move to Windows or Linux as their primary development machine and reach for cloud-based Mac environments when they need to develop for Apple?
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https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-enable-wsl2-ubuntu-gui-...
But apparently ms is working on a Wayland compositor allowing directly running gui apps - I don't think it's quite there yet:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsof...
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/938#issuecomment-763...
Somewhat related: https://ltsp.org/ I'm not sure about the state of a non-x rdp server for thin clients though.
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I ran into [this](https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/5208) bug just today - mentioned in the release notes.
If you're using a VPN (in my case, the NextDNS client), you might want to de-select the option to start Docker on boot. Start it manually instead once your VPN client is loaded and connected. In my case a failure to do this would completely bork the ability to connect to my LAN either over ethernet or WiFi. Took me a while to figure out what the cause was.
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Depends on what out of box experience you want and if you want a GUI. For an easy out of box experience, open source, GUI based tool I suggest checking out https://github.com/utmapp/UTM. There's also an app store version that supports the author I believe.
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There's this for running systemd inside WSL2: https://github.com/arkane-systems/genie
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Why wouldn’t you want to run a database under namespaces and cgroups from a dependency-bundled live archive file tree?
By and large, there’s no such thing as a container, there’s just sprinkles of housekeeping magic.
https://github.com/p8952/bocker
Problems come when we think that today’s containers manage to actually contain anything, bring any security guarantees, or do much else than just slightly-more-successfully jump start a configurable bundle of dependencies.
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I've installed Postgres on my Mac with Homebrew, Docker, and https://postgresapp.com. There are arguments for each of them. On the pro side:
- Homebrew is a general purpose package manager, and Postgres is a package you might want managed.
- If you're using Docker/Docker Compose for a project anyway, that's the obvious way to do it.
- Postgres.app is a specialized tool just for managing Postgres installs, so it's hard to beat if that's what you need.
Some thoughts on the tradeoffs though:
- Homebrew really doesn't like the idea of "versions". It wants everything to be on the latest. That can be fine if you just need a tool locally, but if you want dev and prod to match, it is a pain in the ass.
- Docker isn't really very good at persistence. That's probably not a problem for local development, but you should be aware of it. Running it on a Mac introduces speed and memory issues you wouldn't otherwise have. And now obviously there's the M1 problem.
- Postgres.app is another thing to install. If you just need Postgres for one particular project you might not know about it or want to deal with installing something new.
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WorkOS
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Discontinued Kata Containers version 1.x runtime (for version 2.x see https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers). (by kata-containers)
It might use a hypervisor though, as the pendulum swings back
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I have it working with vpn. We have vpn at work and it is forced tunneling mode. It modifies routes on my laptop. Since wsl2 is a vm on a different network the vpn client does not know about this network and doesn’t know how to route traffic. If you follows these instructions it solves the problem https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit
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Wouldn't some kind of "syscall proxy" or a wrapper possible? There is gVisor [1] which if I understand correctly re-implements Linux kernel in userspace for security, pretty interesting. Such layer would have to re-implement missing pieces in Mach kernel though so maybe it would not be as easy.
