Docker Desktop's Pro-Level Move: Skipping Updates is a Luxury

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A screenshot of the Docker Desktop update notification dialog on a dark gray background. At the top, the Docker logo is visible next to the main header, 'Update ready to install'. Below this, smaller text specifies the version: 'Docker Desktop Version 3.3.3 (64133) - May 6 2021'. The dialog presents several user actions. In the upper right corner, there's a 'SNOOZE' option. Below the version information is a link to 'See what's new'. At the bottom, there are two primary buttons: a bordered, less prominent button that says 'Skip this update' with a green 'PRO' label next to it, and a solid blue button that says 'Install & Restart'. The humor and frustration stem from the fact that a basic feature, the ability to skip a software update, has been placed behind a paywall as a 'PRO' feature. This screenshot captures a moment in time when Docker's monetization strategy for Docker Desktop became more aggressive, which was a point of major contention and debate within the developer community, highlighting a negative developer experience

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Docker finally achieved true containerization: they put the 'skip update' button in a walled garden and are charging for admission

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Docker finally achieved true containerization: they put the 'skip update' button in a walled garden and are charging for admission
Anonymous

Docker just containerized procrastination - “Skip update” is now a premium feature, because even deferring tech-debt apparently requires a subscription
Anonymous

Ah yes, the eternal Docker Desktop update dance - where 'Snooze' is just developer speak for 'I'll update when production breaks and I need that one bug fix from 47 versions ago that I suddenly care about.'
Anonymous

Docker Desktop updates: where 'Install & Restart' is free but 'Skip this update' requires PRO - a brilliant monetization strategy that perfectly captures the SaaS era's approach to developer tooling. It's the digital equivalent of 'you can leave the meeting, but only if you have a premium subscription.' Meanwhile, that SNOOZE button has seen more action than your CI/CD pipeline, because nothing says 'I'll deal with this later' quite like postponing a Docker update during a critical production deployment window
Anonymous

“Skip this update - PRO” is Docker’s most honest enterprise feature: pay to pin the one version where BuildKit, Compose, and the local k8s cluster still make eye contact
Anonymous

Docker Desktop updates: Orchestrating a full restart just to patch the whale - true hyperscale disruption at home
Anonymous

Docker Desktop’s premium feature is “Skip this update” - the free tier is discovering that Install & Restart doubles as Chaos Monkey for localhost when it flips Compose v2 and borks WSL2 networking five minutes before your demo
@waifu_anton 5y

Can someone explain?
1. @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y
  
  >paid >pro
2. @mikeyu 5y
  
  U unable to skip updates unless u r pro I suppose
  
  @waifu_anton 5y
  
  Oh. I am so got used to this that I wasn't even surprised
3. @Dma207 5y
  
  Pay money to skipping the update) Think it's so smart in today reality)
@mikeyu 5y

Didn’t paid
@AlazarGetnet 5y

Don't understand
@Tnam0rken 5y

Update or paid for skip update?
1. @KvyacheS 5y
  
  да
  
  @Tnam0rken 5y
  
  )
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Please, refrain from usage of Russian over there
  
  @KvyacheS 5y
  
  why?
  
  @tyomych88 5y
  
  Potomu chto
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Please, refrain from usage of Russian over there Even in latin form
  
  @KvyacheS 5y
  
  why russian don't allowed. Only russian is banned to use?
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Any except English
  
  @ozalexo 5y
  
  Marvelous. I hope British English is still allowed here )))
  
  @chupasaurus 5y
  
  Actually good question
  
  @zzerga 5y
  
  Muchas gracias!
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  SPEAK ENGLISH!¡!
  
  @zzerga 5y
  
  Ja, natürlich!
  
  @gDanix 5y
  
  わかりました！
  
  @Aleksandrs_A 5y
  
  yes, because we are a civilized society
  
  @KvyacheS 5y
  
  i'll shut down bot server, if you continue mocking me
  
  @batuto 5y
  
  Some people fear the power of supremacy
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  they hate Russians here and want them to die. Every other language (such as Spanish and German) are allowed. So, you understood
  
  @Roman_Millen 5y
  
  Maybe that's because people from other countries don't tend to break the rules time and time again by sending non-English messages, like Russians do?
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  well, i bet there no ad of this channel in other non-Russian channels and percentage of Russians is more that any other nationality here. I bet, if it was ~70% of spanish people, we'll see a lot of español here. So, that's not the reason to blame Russians but it's incredibly bad to ban only Russian, when natürlich and other words in other languages (there was a warning only because of a single "yes" in Russian) are free to use
  
  @Roman_Millen 5y
  
  Well, obviously in this particular case these messages in Spanish or German were more like trolling, and admin mentioned that trolling is fine. But outside of this case I have yet to meet non-English comments that are in some other language but Russian. So, there.
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  Firstly, it doesn't destroy other my arguments and secondly, how do you know freaking word "yes" or another single word/little sentence was not trolling or a joke‽
  
  @zzerga 5y
  
  Not trolling, but testing!
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  nothing other than English is allowed here, though you're getting more obnoxious by the minute.
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  look, imma get a warn for using non-russian and non-english: москаляку на гілляку, нам не потрібні недолюди тут
  
  @Dobreposhka 5y
  
  !report
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  ∞/3 warnings for @borgar_umlaut
  
  @choke_hazard 5y
  
  And that's why I love this channel
  
  @NiKryukov 5y
  
  Admin is ukrainian, I guess. But as we all know, nobody asks the ukrainian
  
  @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y
  
  oh boy this escalated over time lol
  
  @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y
  
  If you pin some research basically telling that social group longevity depends on whether they speak same language it will probably be less burdensome.
  
  @beton_kruglosu_totchno 5y
  
  or just paste a link every time
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  or just tell them… smh
  
  @LineDiscipline 5y
  
  Эм Ай доинг зис райт?
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  No
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  Trolling is ok
Kademlia 5y

Kinda like Windows 10 Enterprise, automatic updates can be disabled there
@jpleorx 5y

The real question is - why would you even want to skip an update... It's not like docker updates will break your containers and have you debug and rewrite your code
1. Nikita 5y
  
  docker desktop killed container build few updates ago, with buildkit, disabled it, and now it's ok
2. @geminicross 5y
  
  Restart is required
3. dev_meme 5y
  
  Oh, you really think so?
4. @Odbjorn 5y
  
  https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/183
@codycode 5y

Polski?
@Four_Velocity 5y

Why not just "snooze" always?)
@Vanilla_Danette 5y

I feel like EA is behind all this
1. @gDanix 5y
  
  EA?
  
  @Vanilla_Danette 5y
  
  Gamer's joke
  
  @gDanix 5y
  
  If this was done by EA, the paid option would be available after purchasing the "Administrative Options DLC", for which you'll need an Origin account. For applying the upgrade you would need to buy loot boxes until you find one with the update. Ups, wait, it's not loot boxes is a user-side-only non-deterministic paid arcade game, totally not loot boxes...
  
  @Vanilla_Danette 5y
  
  You gave me an idea... How about developing an app (or a game, maybe) that let's you find access to updates inside its lootboxes? ... Thinking of it, it has been done before
@OakGary 5y

wait i thought this was a meme
@AmindaEU 5y

Aren't there other alternatives for Windows or whatever that is?
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  I made this screenshot on Mac
2. dev_meme 5y
  
  In overall docker is best choice/balance
  
  @AmindaEU 5y
  
  I have been seeing https://podman.io/ gain popularity, supposedly having the same flags so aliasing docker to it should work and Fedora people were migrated to it in 34 if I understood correctly. Also no daemon running as root
3. dev_meme 5y
  
  Many thanks to big community, mainly
Electrochemistry 5y

Didn't pay.
@RiedleroD 5y

no, this is docker :P
dev_meme 5y

No jokes here
dev_meme 5y

That's my screenshot
@NiKryukov 5y

Rabinovich started his business in software
@choke_hazard 5y

Love those offended Russian puppies, how they cry everytime about their language and gets mad on everybody around
@choke_hazard 5y

We should be condescending to them though. Who needs english if there will be no USA visas for you anymore lmao

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