Doubts in docker-cli and docker-desktop

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Hello everyone,

I am using docker for quite a while now (for fun projects mostly). But, I think I still have not got a good grasp on it.

  • Issue type
    To make it short, Does docker-cli works differently than docker-desktop?

  1. First of all, When I am trying to print docker version in terminal by docker --version, I am getting this output
    Docker version 23.0.1, build a5ee5b1
    But, in docker desktop it is showing 25.0.3.

    image
    image1468×862 32.7 KB

  2. Is it because of difference in contexts (I do not have much knowledge about docker contexts also)? As whenever I am stopping docker daemon by running systemctl stop docker.service, it is still showing many processes with docker in it in ps faux (mostly have docker-desktop written in them).

  3. I noticed one more thing that, I downloaded 1 image of nearly 10 gb using command docker run --gpus all --device /dev/dri -dit image_name, then it downloaded the image but it gave this error at last docker: Error response from daemon: could not select device driver "" with capabilities: [[gpu]].. Now, when I wrote sudo in front of that command it is saying Unable to find image 'image_name' locally and again trying to download it.

  • OS Version/build
    Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

It is my first time asking a question in a community forum, so kindly apologize and notify me, if I do something wrong or any more information is needed.
Thanks

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Docker stand-alone and Docker Desktop are separate things.

It seems you have an old version of Docker (docker-ce, community edition, daemon and CLI) installed.

Docker Desktop provides a GUI and runs Docker containers within a VM (with its own Docker version, it seems), so devices may not be available within the VM.