Can't connect to docker daemon (multiple tries on multiple env)

Traefik Traefik v2 (latest)
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Hello all, so here is the deal I thought it would be a nice weekend project to setup traefik but it turned out to be the biggest nightmare in I have ever been in...

So here is my story:
I started on mac with docker desktop and I ended up having the phrase that now gives me PTSD:
"Cannot connect to docker daemon art unix:///var etc..."

I must say that this NEVER happened before things like portainer run just fine connecting to the daemon without any issue.
I created the docker group added my user tried again and same epic fail...
I was touching rock bottom

But I thought ok maybe it is a mac issue, let me boot up an ubuntu server instance to try and see things throught, and well guess what... SAME THING !!

So yeah I don't know what is happening but this makes me just want to ditch this product and stay with nginx and be happy and see the beauty in life again...

unless a charitable soul gives me a hand and helps me come back from the hell I've been in for the last three days...

Cheers and SOS

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Hello,

What exactly are you trying to do?
What's your configuration (files, docker-compose, ...) ?

You need to provide more information.

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Hi ! thank you for taking the time to answer.

The docker environment is brand new just downloaded and no edit have been done.
Docker version is: 19.06.8

On that I added the docker group and added myself to it so I can run docker command as non root user.

The traefik docker compose is the one that can be found in the quick start guide here it is:

version: '3'

services:
  reverse-proxy:
    # The official v2 Traefik docker image
    image: traefik:v2.2
    # Enables the web UI and tells Traefik to listen to docker
    command: --api.insecure=true --providers.docker
    ports:
      # The HTTP port
      - "80:80"
      # The Web UI (enabled by --api.insecure=true)
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      # So that Traefik can listen to the Docker events
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

And that is pretty much it, nothing else.
If i run that via

docker-compose up -d reverse-proxy

I just get the message I have been talking about earlier, in the log messages.

That's it nothing else is on that ubuntu server, it is clean.