Howard Miller

MacOS runs Office365 - there is no escape. And it looks pretty

You can get docker desktop for the Mac but it's rubbish. Due to the way the file store is abstracted, Moodle runs like the proverbial drain.

This is my docker-compose script - https://github.com/thepurpleblob/DockerMoodle

Please note that there was no intention to provide or support this beyond my own use. The notes are really for myself when I've forgotten what it did

Just for giggles... my dev solution on an M1 mac is...

* Run Ubuntu in a VM using Multipass (https://multipass.run/)
* Then run Docker Compose with containers for nginx, php-fpm, mysql and redis inside the VM to run Moodle

It sounds like madness, but it was the simplest thing I could come up with that ran on an Apple Silicon Mac, was fast enough (it's very fast) and gave me enough flexibility (I need to run multiple versions of Moodle with different versions of the server software).

It rather reminds me of when moving activities first appeared - probably back in Moodle 1.5 or something. And that was way more intuitive. Then we got... wait for it... drag and drop :-O

So what's going on here, I really have no idea.