1. You only have to deal with one Linux distro in the VM. Managing things across many distros can be difficult at that level.
2. There are times you want to blow away your environment. Can't do this if things running on the host.
3. You'll want to controll the resources your workloads uses so they don't make the Linux desktop unresponsive. VMs provide that level of separation.
I could go on but you get the point. If you're a power user who wants it on the host you can do that. For the masses of this kind of product, a VM has a lot of advantages.
If its hardware accelerated the performance difference would likely not matter. And you're not going to deploy a high performance container on a desktop environment since edit:[the desktop] will consume a much greater deal of resources from your host than the VM ever will. For deploying a development environment or self-hosted services it's fine.
It sure does. It crippled my intern gaming laptop just later found out that she is using docker desktop instead of docker.io in Linux.after reinstalling that , there's no visible performance problems running containers
