Comment by darkwi11ow

14 hours ago

Why not use rootless podman? It is 2026 not 2016, Podman works much better than Docker today.

I've used docker until recently just because it was what I was used to. It turned out I can basically just `apt install podman` and it'll just work. I might have stayed a bit behind the times with having podman slotted as a redhat thing.

that's what I do and what the author recommends as well

  • Somehow I doubt DHH and company would be OK sacrificing ""developer experience"" for security... There is still a non-trivial amount of docker-compose files and Docker incantations that don't work 1:1 with podman and podman-compose. Adjusting them would require Omarchy's users underatanding podman, and I doubt this will align with the opinionated nature of Omarchy..

because the distro is all about convenience over security, while selling an aura of technical superiority. Which is the modus operandi that worked for the distro author in the past, when he sold VPS with a big markup, because he also gave a script that did "ssh vps -- curl somebashscript" to do basic webdev taks.

> The security tradeoff was made for them, applied to the default account, and the tradeoff was not explained to the user.

just like the vps era. it's all about convenience.

Rootless docker is also an option.

> Podman works much better than Docker today.

Nah absolutely not. Especially compose files and networking can be an absolute nightmare with podman.

  • Compose files work just fine. The gap with Docker has basically closed, and the few things you can't do or that behave differently are precisely the things Docker shouldn't be doing.