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More like a company that had hundreds of millions of dollars and a couple decades should have fixed it by now. If only Podman could beat Docker in advertising…

• 0xbadcafebee 19d ago
  First they should try making a solution that works as well as Docker. Every time I use Podman or Podman Desktop I run into the most basic problems. Docker works out of the box everywhere.
  • osigurdson 19d ago
    I don't use Podman desktop but I haven't had any issues at all with basic Podman. It just seems like a better overall design. It would be great if Docker copied the rootless / daemonless approach if possible.
    • teekert 19d ago
      For me the problems are always when I pull some image (like GitLab) and try to get it to work with podman. Or the hoops you have to jump through with podman-compose (user lingering, systemd services, privileged ports (80,443) [yeah I know it's a feature]). Docker just works, Podman (I feel) still requires stuff that makes it less declarative (to get to a running infra). Still, having a gitlab runner with a docker in docker setup that can access the host docker socket is not something you do lighty, so I am eyeballing buildah etc. I guess what really grinds my gears is that I'd use podman a looooot more if it could nicely coexist with Docker. I'd use Docker for the big services and podman for all my own stuff. But that is just not possible (at least not afaik), so it is also difficult to switch step by step (yes VMs, bla bla, but it's all complicating).
      • osigurdson 11d ago
        Makes sense. I never use podman compose and instead just use k8s like yamls. I find it easier anyway.