Docker for Mac M1 RC

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Garden.io

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.<p>I wonder if services like <a href="https://garden.io/" rel="nofollow">https://garden.io/</a> 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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LTSP

<a href="https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-enable-wsl2-ubuntu-gui-and-use-rdp-to-remote" rel="nofollow">https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-enable-wsl2-ubuntu-gui-...</a><p>But apparently ms is working on a Wayland compositor allowing directly running gui apps - I don't think it's quite there yet:<p><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-Writing-Wayland-Comp" rel="nofollow">https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsof...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/938#issuecomment-763098682" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/938#issuecomment-763...</a><p>Somewhat related: <a href="https://ltsp.org/" rel="nofollow">https://ltsp.org/</a> I'm not sure about the state of a non-x rdp server for thin clients though.

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Postgres.app

I've installed Postgres on my Mac with Homebrew, Docker, and <a href="https://postgresapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://postgresapp.com</a>. There are arguments for each of them. On the pro side:<p>- Homebrew is a general purpose package manager, and Postgres is a package you might want managed.<p>- If you're using Docker/Docker Compose for a project anyway, that's the obvious way to do it.<p>- Postgres.app is a specialized tool just for managing Postgres installs, so it's hard to beat if that's what you need.<p>Some thoughts on the tradeoffs though:<p>- 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.<p>- 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.<p>- 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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