[itsautomatisch]

I'm curious what issues you have with it, as it should be pretty much a 1:1 replacement when you use the Docker compatibility for most people. Rancher Desktop is also a pretty good replacement as well there are things that aren't quite working in Podman.

[rgovostes]

I've been using it in lieu Docker Desktop for Mac for the past year and it mostly works, but I do hit issues and have to debug them.

- Several issues with non-native containers which are commonly encountered on Apple Silicon Macs: multi-platform containers start much slower, sudo commands in non-native containers don't work, the TARGETARCH variable was set wrong (fixed), the Docker API implementation didn't pay attention to the specified platform (fixed).

- The daemon that creates docker.sock so you can use the Docker CLI doesn't clean up after itself if you uninstall, and this breaks Docker Desktop if you want to switch back (say, to investigate one of these incompatibilities).

- Host directories you want to mount into containers need to be configured when the machine VM is created.

- The machine VM defaults to using an unstable image, which completely broke in September 2023 for a few days.

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acontainers%20is%3Aissue%20...

[itsautomatisch]

Interesting, I haven't hit many issues myself but it definitely seems like it's not as polished as I thought. It's definitely not as "vanilla" as Rancher Desktop, but I like the way it lets you do more outside of just the standard Docker Desktop workflow.

Can you elaborate on the host directories bit? I'm curious what you mean.

[acdha]

> sudo commands in non-native containers don't work

I haven’t seen that - do you know which flavor Linux that affected?