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?
Why run Docker Desktop when it’s installable as a cli service?
What are you actually trying to achieve?
ease of use.
I’m a noob at networking.
Don’t think Docker Desktop would simplify networking, unless it added a new feature since I last used it ~2 years ago.
What does networking have to do with docker? You haven’t explained what you’re trying to achieve.
Docker Desktop isn’t needed on Linux. If you want a UI, try Portainer
there’s only one way to get better at it. by doing it.
Or if it’s not something that’s valuable to you just do it the easy way.
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.
There are a lot of Docker GUI tools out there. There just isn’t Docker Desktop. Here are a few: