Docker Desktop was using 4GB of RAM on my machine. Sitting there. Doing nothing. No containers...
Docker Desktop was using 4GB of RAM on my machine. Sitting there. Doing nothing. No containers running. Just the daemon.
I don't know about you, but 4 gigs for a container runtime that isn't running any containers is a hard no from me.
I'm on Fedora, but this applies to Ubuntu, Debian, whatever. If you're running Linux, you don't need Docker Desktop.
So I started looking at what I actually needed. Turns out: not much.
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