I use Windows 10 as my daily driver, and often work on projects using Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, nginx and others.
Until Docker came along, it was a royal PITA. I always dreaded getting a new laptop or something breaking, as it took forever to set everything back up again, and it was never quite the same.
Docker changed all that. It forces you to configure everything in a reproducible way in a Dockerfile - and it's much simpler than trying to come up with scripts to install and configure everything in Windows, and I'd say it's also quicker than trying to come up with scripts for a Linux VM, just because you can spin containers up and down so quickly.
Until Docker came along, it was a royal PITA. I always dreaded getting a new laptop or something breaking, as it took forever to set everything back up again, and it was never quite the same.
Docker changed all that. It forces you to configure everything in a reproducible way in a Dockerfile - and it's much simpler than trying to come up with scripts to install and configure everything in Windows, and I'd say it's also quicker than trying to come up with scripts for a Linux VM, just because you can spin containers up and down so quickly.
Docker has been a game changer for dev/test.