Rancher desktop has a bloated electron GUI and and just keep in mind that Rancher as a company is going the way of dust - already about as relevant as SuSE.
What do you see as a replacement for Rancher? I haven’t seen any offerings that out of the box work behind a firewall. Tanzu Mission Control failed this, D2iQ Kommander fails at it as of 2.0. EKS Anywhere doesn’t have that either afaik.
Rancher is going the way of dust? Most dev organizations I'm familiar with either use terraform + EKS + helm + pipeline, or replace a lot of that complexity with Fleet.
It's backed by SuSE so it's going to be supported and not dependent on a single maintainer.
From my perspective, the last thing I want to do is waste my time debugging my container runtime, I just want to get on with the job.
It's based also around K3s, which is well suited to desktop environments. The list goes on...
[1]https://rancherdesktop.io