[giamma]

I am still on an x86 Mac.

When Docker Desktop changed licensing I tried to switch to Podman and it was a disaster, Podman was brand new and despite many blog posts that claimed it was the perfect replacement it did not work for me, and I have very simple requirements. So I ended up using Rancher Desktop instead, which was also very unstable but better.

Fast forward 1 year, Rancher was pretty good and Podman still did not work reliably on my mac.

Fast forward another year or so and I switched to colima.

I tried podman last time about one year ago and I still had issues on my old mac. So far colima has been good enough for my needs although at least two times a brew update broke colima and I had to reinstall from scratch.

[ehaughee]

I also had issues with Podman on an M2 Mac. I'm currently using OrbStack as I had network performance issues with Colima (I have 10GbE between the Mac and a NAS). Outside that issue, Colima was awesome.

[giamma]

Thanks, I did not know OrbStack, will give it a try.

[xtracto]

This mirror my experience. Ive been testing podman over the few years since Docker changed its license. But every time there's some thing that just doesnt work. So i find myself always returning to docker

[brikym]

I had some issues with Colima (mac) and switched to Orbstack which fixed everything.

[ehaughee]

I also had issues with Podman on an M2 Mac. I'm currently using OrbStack as I had network performance issues with Colima (I have 10GbE between the Mac and a NAS). Outside that issue, Colima was awesome.