[mrweasel]

I would go so far at saying that Podman Desktop for macOS is non-functional. My understanding is that Podman Desktop will spin up some sort of Linux VM to do all the actual containerization, and the network/proxy is just a mess. For all I know Docker Desktop does the same, but if it does it's better at hiding it.

Docker Desktop also works perfectly well with AMD64 emulation and/or Rosetta.

[rhatdan]

Linux containers require a Linux kernel. Any tool on a MAC that is running containers locally is doing it in a VM.