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thiagoperes 8 hours ago

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

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eigencoder 6 hours ago | parent [-]

What's better about it?

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linkage 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.