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I ditched Docker for Podman

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1101 points codesmash | 4 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.639s | source
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t43562 ◴[05 Sep 25 12:31 UTC] No.45137756[source]▶
To provide 1 contrary opinion to all the others saying they have a problem:

Podman rocks for me!

I find docker hard to use and full of pitfalls and podman isn't any worse. On the plus side, any company I work for doesn't have to worry about licences. Win win!

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1. goldman7911 ◴[05 Sep 25 14:18 UTC] No.45138918[source]▶
You only have to worry about licences if you use Docker DESKTOP. Why not use RANCHER Desktop?

I have been using it by years. Tested it in Win11 and Linux Mint. I can have even a local kubernetes.

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2. seabrookmx ◴[06 Sep 25 01:15 UTC] No.45145656[source]▶
Why not use Docker Engine/CE on Linux so you don't have to run a VM?
3. lmm ◴[06 Sep 25 02:02 UTC] No.45145923[source]▶
Low-quality UX (e.g. you have to switch tabs and switch back if you ever want to see the current state of your containers, because it loads it once when you open the tab and never updates, and doesn't even give you a button to refresh it), lack of documentation, behavioural changes that happen silently (e.g. it autoupdates which changes the VM hostname, so the thing that was working yesterday doesn't work today and you have no idea why) and general flakiness.
4. mpawelski ◴[06 Sep 25 09:18 UTC] No.45147801[source]▶
I concur. My company is using Rancher Desktop on Windows machines. No problems. As long as you use don't care about GUI, and just use CLI dommands ("docker" , "docker compose" ).