After trying out Cosmos Cloud (and it not working for the clients), I’m back at square one again. I was going to install Docker Desktop, but I see it warns that it runs on a VM. Will this be a problem when trying to remote connect to certain services, like Mealie or Jellyfin?

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    As a Mac user who’s migrated over to Linux over the past year or so, I’ve got an idea of where OP is coming from.

    Docker on macOS is accessed via a Desktop GUI, so you can easily see what you have installed, how it’s running, etc… So when I shifted over to Linux, I was thrown off by there being no such tool. I wasn’t used to using a terminal to do everything, and grumbled quite a lot about there being no Docker Desktop GUI, given how many self-hostable services run through Docker.

    I’ve since gotten used to it, but it really is quite jarring.

    • Mordikan@kbin.earth
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      4 hours ago

      There are a lot of Docker GUI tools out there. There just isn’t Docker Desktop. Here are a few:

      1. Portainer
      2. Podman Desktop
      3. Yacht (pretty sure this is unmaintained currently but still should work)
      • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        Oh aye, I get it. But when you’re new to the platform and trying to work with tools that are familiar, you don’t know about any of that.