I ditched Docker for Podman

Docker is failing in that trap where they feel the need to try (and mostly fail so far) to add net-new value streams (e.g. mcp catalogue, a bunch of other stuff i immediately turned off that last time i installed it) rather than focus on the core value.

It's not the case that they've maximised the utility of the core build / publish container nor the acquire / run container workflows and but they're prioritising fluff around the edges of the core problem.

Podman for its various issues is a whole lot more focussed.

The core of docker needs to be free. The docker registry can charge corporate customers for storage and such, but besides being the default registry, there's not much money there because it's a commodity service, not anything unique.

There's just not much money to be made there, especially considering that docker is a pretty thin wrapper built on top of a bunch of other free technology.

When somebody can make a meaningful (though limited) clone of your core product in 100 lines of bash, you can't make much of a business on top of it [1]

Docker suffers from being useful in the open source space but having no reasonable method to make revenue.

https://github.com/p8952/bocker

They have the second problem that `container` [1] will eat up a ton of their business when it ships properly in a month or two.

[1]: https://github.com/apple/container

uh-huh, maybe for the corps that have a predictable hardware refresh schedule but I've never worked in such a place https://github.com/apple/container#:~:text=is%20supported%20...

Why does the hardware refresh schedule matter? What you appear to be referring to is the _operating system_ refresh schedule, which should be every year even at enterprises where corporate IT is problematic.