Howard Miller

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I have multiple development environments because I work in different locations throughout the week.

I got hold of a bunch of old 27" iMacs. A couple of them didn't work and have been converted into very nice external monitors. I got cheap monitor drivers for them from AliExpress. Works perfectly.

MacOS definitely runs Docker natively but it doesn't have the kernel file modules that Docker needs. So Docker has to run an abstraction. Result - Moodle has 20 second+ page load times.

I need the Mac for other things (as well as it looking pretty) but the Ubuntu VM solves the Docker issue. In fact, it's blisteringly quick.

 

I've got about 5 of them but the M1 is the one the day-job handed out with all the VPN stuff. So, as ever, it's making what I have work. 

 

I'm typing now on a ten year old 27" iMac natively running the latest Linux Mint. Absolutely perfectly. So, yeh

I'm not sure who you are asking... but I'm running it on a private network for development / testing. Our production site is completely different.

I also run the same containers on a MacPro laptop when I'm out and about. That (just to confuse the issue) runs the containers inside an Ubuntu Server VM. The reason for this is that while Docker does run on Macos, it's rubbish.

No problem