Why is Docker for Mac a quantifiably worse experience than running Docker on a Linux machine? We'll explore the reasons in this post.įirst, a word on container architecture and how it differs from your standard Virtual Machine (VM). However, their counterpart developers on Linux simply go 🤷🏻♂️ and develop with no such problems. We've all heard the jokes from practically anyone with their development environments on Docker for Mac: it makes your Mac sound like a jet plane at takeoff.