Lots of docker guides + documentation just don’t work, specifically with podman-compose. The networking options are not fully featured, I ended up having to rig up a bunch of kubernetes services just to be able to use my VPN as a network bridge for my media server stack. I got podman working eventually because I think it’s neat, but it definitely would have been twice as easy to just use docker.

In my personal experience, it’s just not as fully featured.

I’ve been working with podman for a few weeks, and it’s functional but a bit harder. If you’re a noobie I would recommend you stick to docker. If you’re a FOSS enthusiast and up for a little more challenge podman is pretty cool.

I do a lot of docker/k8s at work, and I use podman at home. Podman is very cool in theory but still rough around the edges. I recommend docker if you just want to get started, Podman is a little extra work.