As long as they refuse to support installing on Ubuntu (and other popular distros), without relying on the distro repos which are always out of date, they will continue to lose to Docker.

Any serious project in this space supports as many distros as possible.

It's OSS, so I'm not complaining per se, I have no right to. They owe me nothing.

But this one issue has kept me from seriously considering Podman for years. They don't care about my use case and I therefore don't care to use their project.

When getting the latest version looks like this[1], who is really going to consider this for serious production uses?

1: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/discussions...

To be clear, it doesn't explicitly not support Ubuntu or anything, it just doesn't privilege it. Podman doesn't produce packages for any distros.

> As long as they refuse to support installing on Ubuntu (and other popular distros), without relying on the distro repos which are always out of date, they will continue to lose to Docker.

Your needs are incomprehensible to me: that is exactly why I use podman: a predictable version of it is in my distro's repos.

I go to docker.com and how do I even install the thing? What's "docker sandboxes"?

Get the latest version of docker? Why would I want the latest version? I don't want the latest version, I want the same version as my other machines have, so things work everywhere. And I usually don't know what version that is. But I sure do know what Debian version my other machines run!

Again, your needs are utterly incomprehensible to me.