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docs: the main lima command is limactl #4623

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lima is an alias for "limactl shell $LIMA_INSTANCE".

Both of them are installed with "brew install lima".

What does this PR do?

The default lima instance runs nerdctl, which is not supported by Podman Desktop.

So we should not (indirectly) prompt people to start it, which would be done by lima:

FATA[0000] instance "default" does not exist, run `limactl create default` to create a new instance 

The main Lima program, with the help text and all the commands, is called limactl:

The "lima" command, and also the *.lima commands, are just small shell wrappers...

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What issues does this PR fix or reference?

How to test this PR?

lima is an alias for "limactl shell $LIMA_INSTANCE".

Both of them are installed with "brew install lima".

Signed-off-by: Anders F Björklund <anders.f.bjorklund@gmail.com>
@afbjorklund afbjorklund requested review from dgolovin and lstocchi and removed request for a team November 3, 2023 07:31
@benoitf benoitf enabled auto-merge (rebase) November 3, 2023 08:04
@benoitf benoitf merged commit 95016ff into containers:main Nov 3, 2023
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@podman-desktop-bot podman-desktop-bot added this to the 1.6.0 milestone Nov 3, 2023
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