The point is that RedHat went on a tirade for years telling everyone: "Docker bad, root! Podman good, no root! Docker bad, daemon! Podman good, no daemon!".

And then here comes Quadlets and the systemd requirements. Irony at its finest! The reality is Podman is good software if you've locked yourself into a corner with Dan Walsh and RHEL. In that case, enjoy.

For everyone else the OSS ecosystem that is Docker actually has less licensing overhead and restrictions, in the long run, than dealing with IBM/RedHat. IMO that is.

Quadlets is systemd. Red hat declared it to be the recommended/blessed way of running containers. podman compose is treated like the bastard stepchild (presumably because it doesnt have systemd as a dependency).

Please try to understand the podman ecosystem before lashing out.

yeah, it runs fine without systemd, until you need a docker compose substitute and then you get told to use quadlets (systemd), podman compose (neglected and broken as fuck) or docker compose (with a daemon! also not totally compatible) or even kubernetes...