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Interesting.

I used to do it the way you're recommending (before I had podman compose), but I got tired of installing docker compose, and haven't suffered enough for just using Podman compose, lately.

I do think more things are more likely to work the way you're saying. Compose doesn't seem to be standardized yet? And the original dev was probably using Docker compose - for any randomly selected project.

But when I can get away with podman compose, I do, as I recall it being much easier to setup.

Podman is the RedHat implementation of the Open Container Initiative (OCI).

A Dockerfile and a Containerfile are both OCI. Docker and Podman can generally both use either.

Contrasted with Docker, Podman has better security defaults, and installers and licenses that are both actually open source. (Parts of Docker are open source. Parts are not.)

Docker used to lead with additional features beyond OCI such as Docker Compose, but Podman Compose has been a thing for a while, now.

The more mature a product is, the more likely it works perfectly with any OCI compliant tool.

For rookie work, I feel like there's still fair odds the developer only uses Docker and may rely on some anti-pattern that requires setting "bad security=ok" settings before their project will work in Podman.

Your mileage may vary.

I've had the opposite experience. Good to share our data points, though.

Docker desktop is not. (open source)

Which can be a pretty big deal.

This works out to: The product is unencumbered, but the only reliable installer is encumbered as fuck.

That's a "no thanks", from me.

I don't need the sword of "Docker fucking with my colleague's ability to collaborate" hanging over each of my projects.

I'm not mad at folks using Docker for backwards compatibility. I just don't need to make the problem worse.

That guy is clearly an expert.

I figure the engine swap business has got to be booming right now.

Was it pre-spyware? I'll pay extra for pre-spyware vehicles. I work in IT, so I value my privacy.

I kid you not, I bought a DVD player over this nonsense. Now my kids watch the same few used Disney movie and show DVDs however much they like, and I'm not paying these clowns monthly to be abused by them.

As long as our health is perfect, of course.

Sacrilege!

Not our fault everyone blows past the kind offer of : vimtutor on startup! (I kid. The default editor shouldn't require a class.)

You're 100% correct. Nano is a perfectly reasonable default.

That said, it is 2026. It also wouldn't kill us to default to an interactive one-time prompt that defaults to nano, but offers one or two others, and removes itself after setting the user's choice.

Like it cannot print invisible characters.

I was looking at an option to display invisible characters in Kate like last week. So it got better, I guess.