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andyroid | 4 years ago

How about the fact that not all, or even most, dev machines run Linux, which is the only platform podman supports?

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oplav|4 years ago

I don't use podman, but a quick search shows that you can install podman on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Are you referring to something else?

https://podman.io/getting-started/installation

kristjansson|4 years ago

> Podman is a tool for running Linux containers. You can do this from a MacOS desktop as long as you have access to a linux box either running inside of a VM on the host, or available via the network. You need to install the remote client and then setup ssh connection information.

Literally the first non-title element in your link. Just because the client is cross-platform doesn't mean the entire solution is turn-key cross-platform.

dralley|4 years ago

If you read the instructions, they basically say that you still need a Linux VM or WSL environment to run Podman in. Which makes it not a complete replacement for Docker desktop, which handles the VM for you. So OP isn't wrong.