[Question] Why lima/colima over multipass?

[gaganyadav80]

Is lima more performing than multipass? Can't I just install multipass, launch ubuntu shell and install docker or podman on it.
I am just confused as I am a beginner (student) in this container world. I am looking for some Docker Desktop alternatives.

Device: M1 MB Air
OS: MacOS Monterey 12.1

[AkihiroSuda]

• multipass doesn't support localhost port forwarding that is present in Lima (and WSL2).
• multipass solely supports Ubuntu (officially, at least), while Lima supports Alpine, Arch, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Rocky, in addition to Ubuntu
• brew install multipass requires the root (for launching multipassd AFAICS), while brew install lima does not need the root
• multipass didn't support M1 when Lima was created. multipass v1.8 (Oct 2021) added support for M1, though.