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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by demarq on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:14PM (#28463707)
As a typical mac user there is no practical benefit.

Being on a Mac is so you can avoid lengthy configurations, scripts and commands and instead have something that just works and is seamlessly integrated.

This is the opposite.

You’d probably only want to go this route to make a statement about free open source software. But at that point you may as well run Linux

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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by tjscott on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:36PM (#28463902)
The Docker daemon (likely the HyperKit VM) on the Mac has a tendency to burn CPU cycles, even when there are no containers running. It's pretty common for it to sit at 10-20% of a core all day, and sometimes gets pegged at 100% until you quit.

There are countless closed issues in the GitHub issue tracker [1] for similar issues, but the symptoms don't seem to go away for me or many of my colleagues.

It's been a pretty awful experience on Mac for a long time, so any competition is surely welcome.

[1] https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3499

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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by laurencerowe on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:32PM (#28464338)
I had the same frustrations until the other day I saw a tip to enable 'Use the new Virtualization framework' under Preferences -> Experimental Features. Since then Docker's background CPU usage has dropped to 1% and I no longer bother stopping it when I'm not using it.
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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by solarkraft on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:43AM (#28466672)
My hopes for this were high, but it just makes my containers crash (until then networking works and it may be faster) on M1/Monterey.
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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by laurencerowe on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:06AM (#28467100)
That’s probably why it’s still marked experimental! Works well for me on an M1 Mac running Debian/Ubuntu Arm containers.
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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by lugged on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:37PM (#28464376)
Wow, Mac users put up with some bullshit to avoid configuration and have things "just [sometimes, unless you're holding it wrong] work"
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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by q-rews on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:35AM (#28466227)
I'm happy your platform of choice has no bugs nor quirks. Could you let us know which one it is? We can probably help you find the bullshit you put up with that has become second nature.
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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by lugged on Thursday September 09, 2021 @08:03PM (#28476204)
I'm not the one claiming my system is the perfect dev machine.
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Re:How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac by q-rews on Friday September 10, 2021 @12:07AM (#28477709)
Plenty of Apple users complain about Apple, don’t just focus on the fanboys, which every platform has, even Windows.
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