Technical differences between Docker Desktop vs Rancher Desktop on WINDOWS

[EvertonSA]

Hello,

I was asked this question today and I could not answer, can someone please help me? My boss is on my back.

What is the technical difference between Docker Desktop and Rancher Desktop on WINDOWS?

The biggest difference I seen so far is:

• on Docker Desktop, I can perfectly pull from private registries using docker pull from PowerShell when inside the VPN (even though my wsl is not properly resolving internal registries); on Rancher, since it relies on WSL, the pulling of the image is handled inside the WSL container and due to some issues with WSL+VPN, simply docker pull is not sufficient. Why?? What is the technical difference between docker-desktop and rancher-desktop here?

• Rancher uses WSL differently than Docker does. Can't say how.

• Rancher needs WSL2, and docker doesn't even need WSL. (is this correct? i don't think so)

• Docker Desktop on windows fully "mess" with your windows to make the plumbing work. Rancher does it in a different way, instead relying on WSL2 and interfacing with windows PowerShell/CMD

I would deeply appreciate if someone can help with this