When I was running Docker Desktop on Windows, I never used the GUI. Instead I always ran commands (docker or docker-compose) on the command line. In that case, the major benefit to Docker Desktop was having it set up the Linux VM that you run Docker on. That is a huge benefit.

Lazydocker is awesome, though. Thanks for introducing it to me. I just installed it and I'm loving it. I've used Portainer in the past, but didn't like it enough to leave it running continuously.