[taspeotis]

I am using Podman infrequently on Windows. It works just fine, although I had to go rootful for a few containers. They've seen been updated to not need it.

Podman Desktop replaces Docker Desktop.

The only "problem" is that the auto-restart policy doesn't apply between reboots. I kinda get why, and it's not a huge problem for me to start the containers I care about via Podman Desktop when I want to use them. In a sense it works better because if I reboot they all stop and are not using resources.

[rhatdan]

If you enable the podman-restart service on the linux server, restart on boot should work fine. For rootless containers, you also need to enable linger mode for the rootless user.