Does Docker Desktop run on Linux?

Docker list Linux alongside Windows and Mac. They support Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora on ordinary 64-bit machines, with installer files in both common formats. There is also an untested package for Arch-based systems, which Docker say they have not verified.

It behaves the way you expect. The dashboard, the container list, the image list and the settings are all there, and your images and compose files work unchanged.

One quirk catches people. On Linux, Docker Desktop runs its containers inside a small virtual machine of its own, separate from any Docker already installed on the system. Containers you created before you installed Docker Desktop will not appear in it. Docker also suggest not running both at once, because they compete for the same network ports.

The pricing is the same as on Windows. There is a free personal tier, and paid tiers for professional and business use. If you only want to manage containers and would rather avoid that, Podman Desktop does the same job free.