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istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

nerdponx · a year ago

Unfortunately FYI now the ARM64 app is now rejected by MacOS Sonoma on my M1, saying it's "damaged" and can't be opened. However the x86 version seems to work, presumably under Rosetta.

istoica · a year ago

unfortunately this is because I cant afford to digitally sing mac apps, there is a trick to make it work in the USAGE.md but it is up to you. 200 euros per year for a pro bono project is ridiculous, you can also easily build your own dmg file from the sources as it is an open source project in the end.

istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

nerdponx · a year ago

I understand that packaging cross platform apps is hard. Just note that I was talking about the MacOS package, not Flatpak.

istoica · a year ago

It was the same issue, solved for mac also.

istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

MrDrMcCoy · a year ago

This looks really slick! Quick question for you: the site mentions that other engines are planned. I'm curious what those might be. I would guess something like directly interfacing with containerd or kata, but would love to know more. If I could request one, it would be to directly use systemd, since it now covers all the necessary features to run containers quite nicely.

istoica · a year ago

Incus looks promising, see here https://linuxcontainers.org/incus

As for systemd, podman is amazing https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...

istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

ape4 · a year ago

Is it ok to run the Windows version on a normal desktop (not in a VM). Does it uninstall cleanly. Thx

istoica · a year ago

Yes, get it from Microsoft Store, it is digitally signed, autoupdates and offers you the best windows experience.

istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

dzonga · a year ago

how is this different from the usual podman client ?

istoica · a year ago

Author: It isn’t, if you are a power user, the podman client should provide all you need. It also supports docker too. The difference is that this is a GUI, like Docker Desktop, but unlike it, batteries are not included. I dont dislike DD, but to each their own.

istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

delduca · a year ago

Is another crap electron app?

istoica · a year ago

Author of the project here, yes! - electron done well is amazing, try to write a cross platform gui app in a RAD way these days with other tech. I am experienced in flutter too and would still stick to the curent stack. Maybe one day when text engine is better in flutter i would port it. You cant be that cross platform, cross os, cross arch with anything better than electron these days. Electron done well shouldn’t create any problems.

istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

TechSquidTV · a year ago

I saw this, I think posted here the other day, looked interesting. https://github.com/ajayd-san/gomanagedocker

A TUI alternative.

istoica · a year ago

I like TUIs a lot too, they work great for remote connections and just feel good. I even mention one in the Readme of the repo, maybe some could create an awesome tui tools type of page for container management UIs

istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

hi-v-rocknroll · a year ago

It's not fully baked. Sigh

- Buggy as heck with bad error messages.

- Bad UX with inadequate help.

- Requires extra tweaking and installing more stuff to get going, which defeats its entire purpose.

- Confusing.

- Can't browse or choose tags of images.

It's not a viable alternative yet, but maybe it will improve sometime in the future.

istoica · a year ago

Creating some tickets would help improve what you find problematic. I understand your frustration, you would want it to just work , but life isn’t always how we want it to be either. It is a free and open source project, no hidden goals, driven only by passion and love for tech.

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ademup · a year ago

Is Ubuntu 24.04 supported? (Docker Desktop doesn't support 24.04 currently)

istoica · a year ago

It is what I am using, so by default, yes!

istoica commented on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion container-desktop.com/... · Posted by u/istoica

nerdponx · a year ago

Nice!

Unfortunately I got this error upon opening the Mac app:

  Uncaught Exception:
  TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'setImage')
  at NativeTheme.<anonymous> (file:///Applications/Container%20Desktop.app/  Contents/Resources/app.asar/build/main-5.2.3.mjs:22:537771)
  at NativeTheme.emit (node:events:519:28)

Nothing seems to be wrong, but that was surprising.

Also, it's not obvious from the site that Container Desktop does bundle Podman along wit it, unlike Docker Desktop. The analogy with the latter and the subtitle "Podman Desktop Companion" on the site made me think it might include a bundled Podman installation.

That said I do like the idea, and I'm definitely looking forward to trying it. For context, I'm not a Kubernetes user, mostly just Compose and plain `docker run` for ad-hoc things.

istoica · a year ago

Thanks, just released 5.2.4 to address the flatpak issue you mention above. I am sorry for that, it is extremely hard to support so many formats on linux.

I am documenting myself as much as I can to be able to publish to flatpak hub, but there is a lot to get to do it properly.