<story><title>Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion</title><url>https://container-desktop.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moondowner</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rancherdesktop.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rancherdesktop.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; on macOS and Windows, it&amp;#x27;s pretty solid.&lt;p&gt;It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it).&lt;p&gt;What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;containerd&amp;#x2F;nerdctl&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;containerd&amp;#x2F;nerdctl&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PufPufPuf</author><text>Rancher Desktop is great, because kubernetes just works. Not only that, you can &amp;quot;docker build&amp;quot; an image, and then immediately spin it up as a kubernetes pod, without spending ten minutes googling the correct commands to correctly &amp;quot;load&amp;quot; the image.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion</title><url>https://container-desktop.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moondowner</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been using Rancher Desktop as an alternative to Docker Desktop, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rancherdesktop.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rancherdesktop.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; on macOS and Windows, it&amp;#x27;s pretty solid.&lt;p&gt;It has some kinks to work out but I got it working with IDEs too (e.g. the Intellij IDEA Docker Compose integration to work with it).&lt;p&gt;What I also like is that existing scripts and etc that use the docker-compose cli work with Rancher Desktop too, as it uses nerdctl &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;containerd&amp;#x2F;nerdctl&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;containerd&amp;#x2F;nerdctl&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aaqureshi</author><text>Been using Rancher Desktop for 2 years, can definitely recommend this as an alternative to Docker Desktop.</text></comment>