Laragon starts fast - instantly. All services in Laragon are compiled to native code so they run fast - much faster than Docker & Virtual Machines.
Laragon uses its own service manager so all services also start quickly & parallelly.
You need to manually add zip versions of packages, but you can always update latest version of packages when you want, not depending on the maker of the stack.
Change versions of packages
Change dir your data or server data
Start or Stop services
Add virtual host
Add PHP dir and MariaDB dir to user environment path