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Switched to OrbStack in one prompt using Claude. It’s a night and day difference

• eigencoder 8mo ago
  What's better about it?
  • linkage 8mo ago
    The host actually gets RAM back after bursty workloads in the container thanks to memory ballooning. Containers also start up to 5x faster and `npm install` is also much faster because OrbStack uses macOS-specific APIs as much as possible.
    • chuckadams 8mo ago
      The Orbstack dashboard is also something you'll actually enjoy using. It's a native Swift app that launches instantly, not Electron. You get resolvable hostnames for all your containers (though I use traefik instead). Opening a container's filesystem in Finder is another nice trick, I use that one now and then.
  • calmoo 8mo ago
    For one, it has dynamic memory allocation and is much faster and resource efficient. Drop in replacement. It also has a rather nice UI,
• scoodah 8mo ago
  You needed Claude for a `brew install orbstack`?