The article specifically calls this out as a preferred option.

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.

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.

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

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.