Local container runtime and GUI for Docker, rejected in favor of Rancher Desktop.
“Rejected in favor of Rancher Desktop. Simplicity and stability tipped it: repeated, hard-to-fix errors around Docker Desktop updates — sometimes requiring a full wipe of containers and volumes to start over — was unacceptable for a daily-driver tool. It may well be better now, but the confidence never fully came back.”
Rejected in favor of Rancher Desktop. Docker Desktop worked, but updates were a recurring pain point: errors that were hard to track down, sometimes forcing a full clean of containers and volumes just to get back to a working state. That's a hard thing to build confidence back from, even if it's more stable today than it was.