Podman v6.0.0 - Hackdot

Re:Podman v6.0.0 by spockz on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:29PM (#48766238)

I think a stronger brand name. Also on macOS I found Docker Desktop to be more straightforward. Also lately it has been very error prone. Randomly failing at mounting files, or cleaning up networking rules, or suddenly becoming bog slow so I have to restart the VM.

Podman on macOS feels miles less refined. Orbstack is a way better choice.

I only use podman on Linux and there it is blazing fast. Even so, most features seem to be geared to be able to replace kubernetes in combination with systemd. And then something simple as docker compose support is flaky and it’s TUI/ux lags behind the original.

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Re:Podman v6.0.0 by satvikpendem on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:34PM (#48767010)

I like OrbStack for macOS, much faster.

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Re:Podman v6.0.0 by SOLAR_FIELDS on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:50PM (#48768392)

Now that Apple has containerization api’s probably the gap closed but when I ran benchmarks a couple years ago Orbstack would on average perform the same build at 4x faster wall clock time as docker desktop

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Re:Podman v6.0.0 by spockz on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:58AM (#48771765)

Build as in building images or as in building a project when mounted in a container? I notice 3-4x performance degradation of our maven builds in containers. With golang I haven’t noticed much performance degradation, but that may be because it is fast enough anyway.

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