[irusensei]

Don't take me wrong. Podman is great and I use it instead of docker nowadays but when I started using it thinking it was just a docker replacement I got burned by UID and GID mappings, SELINUX policies, missing DNS configuration and more.

More than once I wrecked my whole setup running system migrate as a way to fix problems. It has a whole thing about security ACLs, ID mapping and labels. A chmod -R under your home folder will probably kill all your containers.

While I'm happy with the results it was far from an "it just works" solution like Docker. I imagine things probably have been improved since I started using it.

[christophilus]

I just started using it this year (as a way to isolate various dev environments, and as a way to prevent npm from having trivial access to my entire dev machine). It was easier to use than Docker (in my opinion). It seems to me and things have improved from what you experienced.