I’m trying to launch minikube via:

minikube start

but I’m getting the error:

Exiting due to DRV_DOCKER_NOT_RUNNING: Found docker, but the docker service isn't running. Try restarting the docker service.

It’s definitely installed and running via the command:

systemctl --user status docker-desktop

but shows the service cannot be found when I run the command without the user flag:

systemctl status docker-desktop

in addition, the following two commands hang:

docker info --format '{{.OSType}}'

and

docker version

but the following behave fine:

docker --version

and

docker compose version

All I did was follow the installation guide:

Follow the first step of setting up the apt repo (ran these commands):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc

echo 
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu 
  $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | 
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

downloaded the .deb file

and finally ran:

 sudo apt-get update

 sudo apt-get install ./docker-desktop-<version>-<arch>.deb

in the same directory as the .deb file

Lastly, I restarted the computer but the minikube error persists, any idea why?