Docker as preferred driver on macOS/Windows

[tstromberg]

At the moment, we default to:

• Docker on Linux

• Hyperkit on macOS

• Hyper-V on Windows

• On macOS, Docker is better at VPN handling.

• On Windows, Docker is better at privilege handling.

This suggests that for most users, we could make the default Docker for all platforms, and fall-back to Hyperkit/Hyper-V if Docker is not available.

[afbjorklund]

Is this related to #8135 ?

For the Linux default: it seems that some of the "none" users are struggling with "docker"

We have some suggestion where we encourage them to change, not always working out...

[tstromberg]

@afbjorklund - not directly related, no. This is for the default case on macOS/Windows when one does not specify a --driver option.

[afbjorklund]

The semantic difference between preferred and default is not clear to me, they looked the same.

[afbjorklund]

There were also some objections to this wording:
For non-root usage, try the newer 'docker' driver

Even though minikube itself does not require root,
docker does require root (group). So it's not really "non-root" ?

See #8257

[afbjorklund]

Should we make the persistent volume handling a blocker for this ?
Currently they are not being persisted, but stored on tmpfs : #8151

It is the same on Linux (where it is already default driver), though.
Just getting more exposure, with more users from Mac and Win.

[tstromberg]

Yes, I feel that #8151 should be a blocker for this.

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[afbjorklund]

Well, at least it is consistent over the platforms now

[afbjorklund]

We moved the storage issue to 1.13, see: #8657