[mechanicalpulse]

Podman is daemonless while docker is a client/server pair. Podman also shipped with support for rootless containers, though Docker now has that capability as well.

The podman CLI is nearly a drop-in replacement for docker such that `alias docker=podman` works for many of the most common use cases.

If you don't care about the security implications of running containers as root via a client/server protocol, then by all means keep using Docker. I've switched to podman and I'm happy with my decision, but to each their own.