

Without additional methods of improvement, whether that be using :cached or :delegated, or NFS mounts, none of that really seemed to do much for me on MacOS. It seems that neither Apple nor Docker are particularly interested or invested in addressing this problem. The performance issue of running Docker on Mac is well documented and exists in numerous threads, issues and blog articles. The Docker and Mac SagaĪnyone who works with Docker and uses a Mac will know exactly what I am talking about. I started to find I was asking myself the same question about MacOS. Our work is hard enough, the last thing you need are obstacles between yourself and getting work done. I mean, if what you need to use to do your job works best in a nix environment - by all means, be in that environment. I see many devs proclaiming how great WSL2 is on Windows because you can install Linux and "its just like being in Linux!".

I was the first to do so in the company and was an Apple devotee ever since, owning a half dozen Macbook Pros in that time. After 11 years I have decided to leave the Apple ecosystem for doing development work and move to a dedicated Linux environment.īack in 2009, I leapt from Windows to Mac after being disgusted with the availability of development tools on Windows as it pertains to open source development.
