> Docker performance on current Intel Macs is much worse than Linux. One can onl...

thawkins · on Nov 20, 2020

Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS, same with Windows;

masklinn · on Nov 21, 2020

> Becuase macosx containers run inside a Linux VM, not on the native host OS

My comment was sarcastic.

> same with Windows

Significantly less so as Microsoft themselves provide the virtualisation glue, with a custom kernel and a dedicated / special-cased VM, in the form of WSL2.

heavyset_go · on Nov 20, 2020

Soon people will be running x86 Linux containers virtualized on ARM Macs, making it even slower.