<story><title>Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads</title><url>https://blog.podman.io/2023/08/celebrating-500k-downloads-the-podman-desktop-journey-%f0%9f%8e%89/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anbotero</author><text>Keep it up!&lt;p&gt;What trickery does OrbStack[0] use to be fast?&lt;p&gt;We went back to Podman Desktop because of the license[1], but the interactions on macOS are almost as slow as Docker Desktop.&lt;p&gt;As for Podman itself, happy users here, and our workflows have been working for a while now. We are only missing faster local development.&lt;p&gt;----&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;orbstack.dev&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;orbstack.dev&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.orbstack.dev&amp;#x2F;faq#free&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.orbstack.dev&amp;#x2F;faq#free&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Podman Desktop celebrates 500k downloads</title><url>https://blog.podman.io/2023/08/celebrating-500k-downloads-the-podman-desktop-journey-%f0%9f%8e%89/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ec109685</author><text>Still feels crappy what Docker did by being free since inception, becoming the standard and then springing license fees onto companies that couldn&amp;#x27;t migrate off of it in time.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully, podman can solve &amp;quot;basic dcoker desktop&amp;quot; needs for most companies.</text></comment>