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xrd ◴[] No.45137711[source]
I love podman, and, like others have said here, it does not always work with every container.

I often try to run something using podman, then find strange errors, then switch back to docker. Typically this is with some large container, like gitlab, which probably relies on the entirety of the history of docker and its quirks. When I build something myself, most of the time I can get it working under podman.

This situation where any random container does not work has forced me to spin up a VM under incus and run certain troublesome containers inside that. This isn't optimal, but keeps my sanity. I know incus now permits running docker containers and I wonder if you can swap in podman as a replacement. If I could run both at the same time, that would be magical and solve a lot of problems.

There definitely is no consistency regarding GPU access in the podman and docker commands and that is frustrating.

But, all in all, I would say I do prefer podman over docker and this article is worth reading. Rootless is a big deal.

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1. k_roy ◴[] No.45139243[source]
I use a lot of `buildx` stuff. It ostensibly works in podman, but in practice, I haven't had much luck