[essem]

gotcha. i was aware, but doesn't apply to my current circumstance.

is that the motivator for most, then?

[freetime2]

It was the motivator for me. But having gone through the effort to evaluate alternatives, I’m happy where I ended up (lima). It’s free and open source, and easier to install and configure via scripts than Docker Desktop. The goal for our team is to make getting new developers set up as simple as possible (ideally just a single command), but prior to now the instructions to install and configure Docker Desktop were always an asterisk in the prerequisites section.