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I ditched Docker for Podman

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1101 points codesmash | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 11:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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Izmaki ◴[05 Sep 25 12:37 UTC] No.45137807[source]▶
None of your companies need to worry about licenses. Docker ENGINE is free and open source. Docker DESKTOP is a software suite that requires you to purchase a license to use in a company.

But Docker Engine, the core component which works on Linux, Mac and Windows through WSL2, that is completely and 1000% free to use.

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xhrpost ◴[05 Sep 25 12:55 UTC] No.45137973[source]▶
From the official docs:

>This section describes how to install Docker Engine on Linux, also known as Docker CE. Docker Engine is also available for Windows, macOS, and Linux, through Docker Desktop.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

I'm not an expert but everything I read online says that Docker runs on Linux so with Mac you need a virtual environment like Docker Desktop, Colima, or Podman to run it.

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LelouBil ◴[05 Sep 25 12:58 UTC] No.45138007[source]▶
Docker desktop will run a virtual machine for you. But you can simply install docker engine in wsl or in a VM on mac exactly like you would on linux (you give up maybe automatic port forwarding from the VM to your host)
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linuxftw ◴[05 Sep 25 13:14 UTC] No.45138166[source]▶
This. I run docker in WSL. I also do 100% of my development in WSL (for work, anyway). Windows is basically just my web browser.
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CuriouslyC ◴[05 Sep 25 13:34 UTC] No.45138375[source]▶
Ironic username. As a die hard, WSL aint bad though. I just can't deal with an OS that automatically quarantines bittorrent clients, decides to override local administrator policies via windows updates and pops up ad notifications.
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linuxftw ◴[05 Sep 25 13:51 UTC] No.45138587{6}[source]▶
All my personal machines run linux. At work my choices are Mac or Windows. If Macs were still x86_64 I might choose that and run a VM, but I have no interest in learning the pitfalls of cross arch emulation or dealing with arm64 linux distro for a development machine.
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1. chuckadams ◴[05 Sep 25 18:35 UTC] No.45142020{7}[source]▶
I never notice the difference between arm64 and x86 environments, since I'm flipping between them all the time just because the arm boxes are so much cheaper. The only time it matters to me is building containers, and then it's just a matter of passing `--platform=linux/amd64,linux/arm64` to `docker buildx`.

If you're building really arch-specific stuff, then I could see not wanting to go there, but Rosetta support is pretty much seamless. It's just slower.