The docker situation on MacOS is so painful. That's the number 1 factor keeping me off it. It's such a fundamental tool to development in this day and age and Docker Desktop doesn't cut it at all. I used to run into mysterious lock ups of the VM when running decently complex workloads. It would happen maybe 2 or 3 times a week and I would have to blow away all state and set everything back up. Recently I've seen issues where it can't even build some non-trivial images on machines using M-series processors. I've tried Rancher Desktop too but also ran into similar issues. Neither of them can make it past building a decent sized rust project while emulating x86. This doesn't even take in account the performance of these builds that do finish. I'd be happier with slow builds if they at least worked.

Aside from build and stability issues, I've also hit not-so-subtle bugs in MITM proxies they add for connections on some ports.

I get why building Docker on MacOS, especially with the x86 emulation twist, is such a difficult problem. I don't envy the engineers working on this. But I don't get a developer who knows they need Docker would pick a mac for their main machine.