Docker Desktop is Now Available on Linux but Emacs already have docker.el

[https://www.docker.com/blog/the-magic-of-docker-desktop-is-now-available-on-linux/](https://www.docker.com/blog/the-magic-of-docker-desktop-is-now-available-on-linux/) Emacs alternative - [https://github.com/Silex/docker.el](https://github.com/Silex/docker.el)

Yup! And it's fantastic! Plays nice with docker-compose. Has a magit-style hydra interface. Displays images and containers in tables with dired-like interface so you can halt or login etc with a key press. In sum: it's awesome. Never tried docker desktop because why would I? I haven't tried git desktop either for the same reason

Magit has a transient interface :) transient and hydra are similar but different packages

Didn't know that thanks! TIL

Yes! Just discovered docker.el a few months back and it's a fantastic package for docker

Sadly it doesn’t really support podman, which I’ve completely switched over to now.

I would suggest logging an issue regarding that. The last issues on said topic were quite a while ago.

It confused me too :)

docker.el actually uses transient and not hydra. It's an awesome package and I'm pretty sure better than docker desktop as it's well integrated in Emacs and you can easily open a eshell/vterm/dired/etc to your running container.

Yeah I saw some wip branch, but it seems nothing much happened since then. Not sure if there’s any point in reviving that topic. I’m not in a place to implement anything myself unfortunately.

This was probably me and is on hold since then because I forgot about it.